Science Memes

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

It's simple. Have a central repository similar to Axriv or BioRxiv, but one step further where a manuscript is modified after peer review. The site publishes the paper and the peer reviews (few journals publish peer reviews). Readers can then decide if the science is valid, or not. It should be supported by a consortium of countries, because the world governments currently waste $13B a year on publication fees -that's money that should be in labs doing research.

The current situation is so broken, important research can get held up for YEARS by some cunt at Harvard or Stanford who wil delay the process while his/her lab catches up. Soem of these prize winners owe their careers to "inspiration" from studies they reviewed and rejected.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago*

The site publishes the paper and the peer reviews (few journals publish peer reviews). Readers can then decide if the science is valid, or not.

…So like Wikipedia for papers? With the “peer review” being the discussion section?

That sounds like a great project for Wikimedia TBH. That + Arixv's nice frontend is literally the stack to do it. And they have the name recognition to draw people in.

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[–] RobertoOberto@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

world governments currently waste $13B a year on publication fees -that’s money that should be in labs doing research.

And only a tiny fraction of that $13B can buy a lot of lawyers, lobbyists, and favors to make sure things don't improve.

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

It was a game changer for chicken. Still anticipated for the first Chicken Nobel Prize. Spun off three chicken companies.