https://www.firstprinciples.com/article/is-peer-review-failing-its-peer-review>Things are so bad that a new world record was set in 2023: more than 10,000 research papers were retracted from academic journals.>The numbers don’t lie: Scientific publishing has a problem, and it’s getting worse>peer review is a broken system that needs its own honest review. >The scale is impossible. Let’s do the math: 3 million peer-reviewed papers published every year, multiply those by two-to-three reviewers, times four-to-eight hours per reviewer… that math doesn’t work. Yet we persist in this dreamlike fantasy that somehow peer review is going to ensure quality.>The fragility of the peer review system were spotlighted in the 2013 “Who’s Afraid of Peer Review” affair, in which science journalist John Bohannon created “a scientific version of Mad Libs” — a nonsense paper that was accepted by 157 of 255 pay-to-publish open-access journals (an acceptance rate of 60 percent).
>>16296610Did you know most of those retractions came from China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Russia. If we excluded those counties from western journals it would be a net positive.
>>16296612Fuck off you stupid jew.
>>16296612Don't be racist. Everyone's equally likely to to have retractable papers.
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>>16296610>Scientific publishing has a problemobviously, as long as scientists have to work for money, there will be fraud, as there is in anything else that humans do.
>>16296629People who are under greater pressure to publish, especially if their results are shit, are more likely to write bad papers which will are likely to be retracted. Race doesn't matter but culture is important.
Well on the good news side, they'll probably start running them through an LLM soon that checks if its ridiculous or bad on the surface level.So there will be SOME kind of review rather than none.
>>16297837... surely nothing can go wrong
>>16297823>Race doesn't matter yes it does. the replication crisis coincides with a dramatic increase in the number of nonwhites publishing
