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pervycreeper | 7 years ago

>The point of peer review is to stop bad research, not fake research

I would submit that "fake research" is, in fact, bad research.

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UncleMeat|7 years ago

To a reviewer with three hours to spare, fake research is indistinguishable from good research. Unless you want to give me months to review a paper, I will not be able to detect fraud.

Instead I rely on the fact that the community will attempt to integrate these ideas after publication and arrive at the conclusion that the paper was garbage.

malvosenior|7 years ago

If you only have three hours, can't detect fraud, can't tell if the the paper is even real. Then what's the point of even doing the peer review? Again, peer review offered no value at all in this case.