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The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point
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In 2020 the Lancet - the gold standard of Peer Review - published an editorial insisting that anyone who even suggested covid leaked from a lab was an anti-science conspiracy theorist. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanc ... 9/fulltextDeezerShoove » Today, 11:36 am » wrote: ↑ I gave up shaming assholes here for claiming "proof" when they cited peer reviewed papers and such.
That was actually a few years ago.
Peer reviews were dubious then and, as you say, have become basically useless now.
Morons can be impressed by some "Who will fact check the fact-checkers?" article written recently.
That's the trailer trash level of this issue.
Peer reviewing process went to **** under the radar long ago.
I have seen it close up myself just like you.
In 2023, the Lancet published an editorial stating that certainly the lab leak theory was an avenue that rightly merited scrutiny.
There was no retraction of, no apology for, no MENTION of the previous anti-science POLITICAL screed they had published. It was simply consigned to the same memory hole inhabited by the Lancet's erstwhile shiny inviolability. The Lancet remains the most credible and esteemed journal in the western world. It simply no longer has the same respect - from anyone. It was the last defense of pure science - and while it still deals in real science, it is now known to traffic in pseudo-science and political claptrap. The name it once had was as easy to throw away as it will be impossible to retrieve.
"Because I SAY I am" is fallacy, not science
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You cannot betray me - only yourself, to me.
Who cuts off your dick is not your friend
An opinion you won't defend is not yours. It's someone else's.
Humanity's Law of the Jungle: Survival NOT of the fittest, but of the tribe.
When peeing in the pool, stand on the edge.
Only religions declare heresy; only lies require protection.
If gender is not sex, why should a gender claim change what sex you shower with?