Nature Goes Full Stoopid
A news article about a preprint analyzing junk peer review feeds our self-loathing narrative
Well, you can’t get much more stupid than this:
- Nature publishes a news article about an OSF preprint
- The preprint deals with peer-review
- The headline of the Nature article states definitively: “Peer reviewers more likely to approve articles that cite their own work”
- The review system analyzed is the F1000 Research review system, which is bogus for a number of reasons:
- It’s a crowdsource model
- It’s a platform model — there is no focused community
- It doesn’t utilize trained reviewers or editorial staff
- It equates peer-review with approval/acceptance
- Good peer review is advisory to editors, not an approval or acceptance step
The layers of stupid in the article are multiple and self-consuming:
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