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In response to
"scientists like to think of science as self-correcting. to an alarming degree, it is not..."
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x
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this bit is incredible...
Posted by
x (aka dmuck)
Oct 18 '13, 06:38
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"John Bohannon, a biologist at Harvard, recently submitted a pseudonymous paper on the effects of a chemical derived from lichen on cancer cells to 304 journals describing themselves as using peer review. An unusual move; but it was an unusual paper, concocted wholesale and stuffed with clangers in study design, analysis and interpretation of results. Receiving this dog’s dinner from a fictitious researcher at a made up university, 157 of the journals accepted it for publication."
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