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@dmacphee "Preprints are preprints because they’re published on a platform for preprints: It’s not synonymous with un-peer-reviewed. And the screening at good preprint servers is better quality control than exists at the worst journals.
Authors can, and often do, upload new versions of a preprint after responses to the first version, or after journal peer review."

"The quality of so many of them is so high, and the quality of so many journal reports of research so low, that I don’t think publication status is a reliable distinction."

"... the onus for not misleading the public lies in vetting a preprint before publishing a news story about it. Cautioning that it’s a preprint doesn’t really get anyone off the hook."

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