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Yes, these papers would be unobjectionable on a blog somewhere. Meanwhile, "x isn't perfect so we should do nothing instead" isn't really a useful policy.
by stonogo 4y ago
Yes, these papers would be unobjectionable on a blog somewhere. Meanwhile, "x isn't perfect so we should do nothing instead" isn't really a useful policy.
- s1artibartfast 4y agoThats not really what I was trying to say. I am saying that journals not only aren't perfect, but that they are actively bad. People seem to think that peer review and publication is something entirely different than what it is, and therein lies the harm. Every paper is basically already a blog post, and people think that they are not. My proposal isn't to do nothing, but that most papers should be freely published in a forum similar to xariv, and feedback should also be freely published in xariv. This is far better than the current system where papers take years to be published, still aren't vetted for validity, and any criticism takes years to be published if journals are even willing to publish it at all.