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   Abie (temptoetiam@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 08:05:44 JST Abie

   "Scientists have run studies where they deliberately add errors to papers, send them out to reviewers, and simply count how many errors the reviewers catch. Reviewers are pretty awful at this. [Reviewers caught 25-30% of the major flaws.]
   These were critical issues, like “the paper claims to be a randomized controlled trial but it isn’t” and “when you look at the graphs, it’s pretty clear there’s no effect” and “the authors draw conclusions that are totally unsupported by the data.” Reviewers mostly didn’t notice."
   https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review

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     Abie (temptoetiam@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 08:06:26 JST Abie

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     "When one editor started asking authors to add their raw data after they submitted a paper to his journal, half of them declined and retracted their submissions. This suggests, in the editor’s words, “a possibility that the raw data did not exist from the beginning.”"

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     Abie (temptoetiam@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 09:06:56 JST Abie

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     "If you want to sell a bottle of vitamin C pills in America, you have to include a disclaimer that says none of the claims on the bottle have been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Maybe journals should stamp a similar statement on every paper: “NOBODY HAS REALLY CHECKED WHETHER THIS PAPER IS TRUE OR NOT. IT MIGHT BE MADE UP, FOR ALL WE KNOW.” That would at least give people the appropriate level of confidence."

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     Abie (temptoetiam@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 09:06:57 JST Abie

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     "you used to be able to write a scientific paper with style. Now, in order to please reviewers, you have to write it like a legal contract. Papers used to begin like, “Help! A mysterious number is persecuting me,” and now they begin like, “Humans have been said, at various times and places, to exist, and even to have several qualities, or dimensions, or things that are true about them, but of course this needs further study (Smergdorf & Blugensnout, 1978; Stikkiwikket, 2002; von Fraud et al., 2018b)”. "
     et en effet :https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_2364276_4/component/file_2364275/content

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 09:07:05 JST feld

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