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We Must Demand Evidence of Peer Review

posted by martyb on Wednesday May 23 2018, @08:20AM   
from the peerless-recommendation dept.

canopic jug writes:

The Scientist has an opinion piece that insufficient evidence of peer review is happening in scholarly publishing. In it, the author writes a call for publishing of anonymized peer reviews.

Scientific rigor demands that claims be substantiated by evidence. If I claim that gene A regulates gene B and provide no evidence, my claim will be dismissed. It must be dismissed. Yet, if a journal claims to conduct peer review and provides no evidence of it, the claim is rarely dismissed.

However, given the specialized nature of some disciplines and the small number of researchers, it is likely that the anonymity would not last for long. How do Soylentils weigh in on the opinion piece?

[Ed's Comment: The link is unreliable, but patience tends to get through eventually]

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Original Submission

• Which fields? Which fields? (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 24 2018, @03:14AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 24 2018, @03:14AM (#683393)

  Put up or shut up. Whataboutism is a deadly boring argument fail.

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• Re:Which fields? (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday May 24 2018, @10:38AM

  by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday May 24 2018, @10:38AM (#683495) Homepage Journal

  I think you need to look that term up. It's not even sort of applicable here.

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