mainstream news: distrust in research is because of all these dangerous misinformationists who won’t just obey unquestioned

research community: :blobcatgoogly: haha we’re bad at our jobs actually https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/05/time-to-assume-that-health-research-is-fraudulent-until-proved-otherwise/

@zleap @freemo

We have long known that peer review is ineffective at detecting fraud

@zleap no this is what independent replications were for.

@freemo

@icedquinn

Open access, open review, peer review, and replication are all necessary elements to detect fallacies (whether intentional as fraud or not). Any of them, when applies in a healthy environment, will reduce fallacies, but they arent perfect.

@zleap

@zleap

I've been wanting to start a open-access open-review journal myself for sometime that might do well in that effort.

@icedquinn

Follow

@zleap

If i knew how to drive users to discourse I'd be all for it. If we had some users active over there it would likely help attract new users too. But getting that initial userbase is the hard part.

@icedquinn

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