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> you're looking at you're bound to miss 99 percent of what you want to find. Or those 1% are real professional that know their stuff while the other are publi
by JPLeRouzic 4y ago
> you're looking at you're bound to miss 99 percent of what you want to find.
Or those 1% are real professional that know their stuff while the other are publishing because they are doing some internship, or publishing low quality articles on an obscure domain is a way to evade criticism (how many ALS experts in academia?) or other short commitment to a topic.
I read a lot of literature on ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and clearly 99% of publications have no value at all, even when their university claims of "a breakthrough".
As far I know there were breakthroughs only every ~5 years (TDP-43 in 2006, C9orf72 in 2011, FUS 2010) and no similar breakthrough since. Big companies like Biogen, which bet much on various genetic (ASO) therapies, are now removing drugs from their pipeline. We clearly do not understand the field, despite publishing 15,000 articles per year!