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Most of the research Shamir does at this point is basically crap like this, which is why it's on a website instead of in a conference or journal.
by ars_technician 13y ago
Most of the research Shamir does at this point is basically crap like this, which is why it's on a website instead of in a conference or journal.
- judk 13y agoExposing a weakness in the post-journal open access publishing model. Non peer reviewed work getting more attention thannpeer reviewed work. At least on boards like HN, which I guess never respected the academic community as much as bloggers anyway.
- a_bonobo 13y agoPost journal open access publishing _includes_ peer-review; see PLOS ONE, PeerJ etc. Similar problems as OP's have been noticed with non "post-journal open access publishing model". That's generally called "science by press conference" now - the most famous case was the arsenic life paper, which was published in Science, a "traditional" journal, and then later retracted after their press conference before the publication generated a huge buzz (and two later papers contradicted their findings). This isn't a problem that's caused by open access or new publishing models.