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   ☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭ (radical_egocom@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 09:52:30 JST ☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭

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   • Daniel Lakeland

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   Rigorous peer review and high editorial standards are extremely important aspects of science. That's how scientists are able to determine what scientific studies are and aren't correct and is the reason science is the best tool humans have created. If a scientific paper can't withstand rigorous peer review and high editorial scrutiny, then it isn't a good scientific paper. That's the way science works.

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     Daniel Lakeland (dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 09:52:31 JST Daniel Lakeland

     The crisis in scientific publishing is at its core another area of tension between authoritarian institutionalism and #anarchy. The people who are calling for "rigorous peer review" and to uphold "high editorial standards" and such are basically at their core trying to uphold a hierarchical view of society. There's "the people who are authorities" and "the little people who must bow to authority". It's trash, in the same way that capitalism is trash and a state run by elected elites is trash.

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