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Debatable on whether or not you can assume litigation is grounds for defamation. Even if it is true, it's not necessary that anonymity required the scientist to
by dluan 12y ago
Debatable on whether or not you can assume litigation is grounds for defamation. Even if it is true, it's not necessary that anonymity required the scientist to sue.
I think the appeal for the case to drop is not to discourage discussion of anonymity in review, but that it isn't discussion. A jury panel that decides to outcome of a paper could make science worse off than through a panel of peers.
- lisper 12y agoThe suit it a red herring. The point is that anonymity makes it more likely that bogus criticism will be heard, just as non-anonymity makes it more likely that valid criticism will not be heard. Anonymity is not a quality filter.
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