Re: OT: about peer review

On 13/07/2024 11:30 pm, john larkin wrote:

On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 05:00:47 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
 

Peer review is essential for science. Unfortunately, it’s broken.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/peer-review-is-essential-for-science-unfortunately-its-broken/
  There's no incentive to fix the system, which was never designed to catch fraud anyway.
..
yea..
Lots of repeats in science of things that are obviously wrong.
Next generation maybe...

 Every now and then someone writes a totally nonsense paper, basically
a parody, and gets it reviewed and published. AI take the work out of
even that.

But they do tend to be deliberate jokes, recognised as such by the referees who review them and editors who publish them. Science doesn't always take itself all that seriously.
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