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- Peer review reduces strength of claims of a wildlife market origin of Covid https://ayjchan.medium.com/evidence-for-a-natural-origin-of-covid-19-no-longer-dispositive-after-scientific-peer-review-af95b52499e1 18 comments
- How to fix peer review http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/12/scientific-publishing 11 comments
- Peer Review is No Panacea http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/06/peer-review-is-no-panacea/58842/ 18 comments
- Peer-reviewed study finds that, the more fluoride children had in their drinking water, the lower their scores on intelligence tests. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21237562 4 comments science
- Iraq war claimed half a million lives, peer-reviewed medical study finds http://alj.am/1hube0l 160 comments worldnews
- Survey finds 97% of climate science peer-reviewed papers agree warming is man-made http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/may/16/climate-change-scienceofclimatechange 298 comments science
- Like canaries sent into coal mines to warn of breathing hazards, livestock in areas where fracking is occurring are getting sick and dropping dead in alarming numbers, according to the only peer-reviewed scientific study of the impact on animals http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stories/is-fracking-contaminating-us-livestock-121203?news=846369 20 comments politics
- Peer-review crisis creates problems for journals and scholars https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/06/13/peer-review-crisis-creates-problems-journals-and-scholars 3 comments science
- EmDrive: Nasa Eagleworks peer-reviewed paper finally published by AIAA saying it works http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/emdrive-nasa-eagleworks-peer-reviewed-paper-finally-published-by-aiaa-saying-it-works-1592435 18 comments technology
- Elsevier has an entire division dedicated to publishing fake advertorial "peer-reviewed" journals - Boing Boing http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/09/elsevier-has-an-enti.html 6 comments science
- Scientists aghast at bizarre AI rat with huge genitals in peer-reviewed article | It's unclear how such egregiously bad images made it through peer-review. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/scientists-aghast-at-bizarre-ai-rat-with-huge-genitals-in-peer-reviewed-article/ 3 comments science
- NASA confirms Star Trek's Em-Drive propulsion system appears to work:After months of heated debate and leaked documents, NASA's long-awaited EM Drive paper has finally been peer-reviewed and published http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2016/11/nasa-alert-confirms-startrek-em-drive-propulsion-system-really-does-appear-to-work-to-mars-in-70-days-after-months-of-hea.html 45 comments technology
- Major publisher retracts 43 Chinese scientific papers amid wider fake peer-review scandal http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/03/27/fabricated-peer-reviews-prompt-scientific-journal-to-retract-43-papers-systematic-scheme-may-affect-other-journals/?postshare=5031427452343393 3 comments science
- US researchers with an unorthodox idea in two or more scientific fields now have the chance to bypass the normal peer-review process at the NSF http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/11/new-nsf-program-sidesteps-external.html?ref=hp 5 comments science
- Where are the serious Republicans? 100% of peer-reviewed papers aren't enough to convince one GOP senator that climate change is real? http://trueslant.com/johnknefel/2010/06/10/lindsey-graham-kinda-sorta-believes-in-climate-change-if-you-do-he-guesses/ 29 comments politics
- A new EWG peer-reviewed study has found chlormequat, a little-known pesticide, in four out of five, or 80 percent, of people tested https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/2024/02/ewg-finds-little-known-toxic-chemical-four-out-five-people-tested 50 comments science
- A growing interest in and concern about the adequacy and fairness of modern peer-review practices in publication and funding are apparent across a wide range of scientific disciplines. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayabstract?frompage=online&aid=6577844 40 comments science
- I 100% agree with this - When was the last peer-reviewed paper published by @neiltyson that wasn’t a minor role in a large collaboration? Aside from his entertainment career the dude is just a planetarium director. That’s rad, but let’s not pretend he’s on the same level as Avi Loeb and Garry No https://twitter.com/tinyklaus/status/1712441087774609864 2 comments aliens
- Climate change responsible for record sea temperature levels, says study | Global warming is driving an unprecedented rise in sea temperatures including in the Mediterranean, according to a major new report published by the peer-reviewed Journal of Operational Oceanography https://phys.org/news/2020-10-climate-responsible-sea-temperature.html 4 comments worldnews
- Controversial spraying method aims to curb global warming -- A fleet of 100 planes making 4,000 worldwide missions per year could help save the world from climate change. Also, it may be relatively cheap. That's the conclusion of a new peer-reviewed study in Environmental Research Letters. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/geoengineering-treatment-stratospheric-aerosol-injection-climate-change-study-today-2018-11-23/ 36 comments worldnews
- Out of curiosity - how is possible in r/science that the comments that point to the actual peer-reviewed papers are heavily downvoted and the top score is from known incompetent from /r/sclimateskeptics which only does 'handwaving'? http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/g0fg9/polar_ice_loss_quickens_raising_seas_ice_loss/ 15 comments science
- Scientists' social media networks brought to light several bad AI-generated figures circulated from a peer-reviewed article recently published in a reputable journal | The publisher of the review article, Frontiers, is aware of concerns regarding the published piece. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/scientists-aghast-at-bizarre-ai-rat-with-huge-genitals-in-peer-reviewed-article/ 5 comments science
- A tool to draw & manipulate knots, improved through peer review and your suggestions https://fi-le.net/knottingham/ 5 comments math
- Openstax - A website which contains free, peer reviewed and openly licensed high school/university level textbooks in various subjects including Math, Science, Economics, Finance, Accounting and more. https://openstax.org/ 6 comments internetisbeautiful
- CVPR Paper Controversy; ML Community Reviews Peer Review https://medium.com/syncedreview/cvpr-paper-controversy-ml-community-reviews-peer-review-79bf49eb0547 3 comments artificial
- 107 cancer papers retracted due to peer review fraud. https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/107-cancer-papers-retracted-due-to-peer-review-fraud/ 10 comments technology
- This is an actual peer reviewed journal article: Misperceiving Bullshit as Profound Is Associated with Favorable Views of Cruz, Rubio, Trump and Conservatism http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0153419 3 comments politics
- How many developers have done peer source code reviews ? If so what tools did you use ? http://wwalford.co.za/2015/01/reviewing-source-code-white-paper/ 54 comments coding
- Scholarly journal retracts 60 articles, smashes "peer review ring." http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/07/10/scholarly-journal-retracts-60-articles-smashes-peer-review-ring/?tid=hp_mm&hpid=z4 46 comments worldnews
- The new chairman of the House science committee has drafted a bill that would replace peer review at the NSF with a set of funding criteria chosen by Congress. http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2013/04/us-lawmaker-proposes-new-criteri-1.html 1014 comments science
- World's most excruciatingly ironic conference? The Second International Symposium on Peer Reviewing (ISPR 2010) http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2010/05/01/worlds-most-excruciatingly-ironic-conference/ 6 comments compsci
- Scientists: "We're not on a pedestal: peer review keeps scientists firmly grounded. We deal in theories and uncertainty - not egocentric preaching - as some claim." http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/11/scientists-peer-review-research 141 comments science
- The not Peer Reviewed Element 122 Claim Likely False http://www.chemistry-blog.com/2008/04/29/adressing-marinovs-element-122-claim/ 2 comments science
- Prions may not be the transmission vector for Creutzfeldt-Jakob's disease (BSE) after all [peer reviewed study, link to article in comments] http://vir.sgmjournals.org/cgi/content/full/86/3/859 7 comments science
- AskScience AMA Series: We're excited to bring you industry experts from the official Peer Review Week 2020 Panel. Join our experts who will be answering all your questions around the theme 'Trust in Peer Review'. Ask us anything! All welcome. https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/iy7yk1/askscience_ama_series_were_excited_to_bring_you/ 120 comments askscience
- "Peer review: the end of an error?" Timothy Gowers criticizes formal peer review process. https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/the-end-of-an-error-peer-review/ 5 comments math
- “The conceptual penis as a social construct” (a Sokal-style nonsense hoax paper on Gender Studies) is peer reviewed and published in the journal Cogent Social Sciences http://www.skeptic.com/downloads/conceptual-penis/23311886.2017.1330439.pdf 3 comments science
- House chair wants Congressional guidelines to replace peer review for federal science research http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/29/4282270/house-chair-wants-congress-guidelines-replace-peer-review-science-research 3 comments science
- Conceptually, the peer review process can lead to distortion of the results from the viewpoint of the evidence user, akin to bias. Peer review bias can be defined as a violation of impartiality in the evaluation of a submission https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/s0025-6196(18)30707-9/fulltext#sec2 7 comments science
- "National Lawful Use of Guns Survey," by Michael Siegel PhD at Boston University, identifies reasons why gun owners don't trust gun researchers (peer reviewed science within 6 months) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343261229_the_meaning_of_guns_to_gun_owners_in_the_us_the_2019_national_lawful_use_of_guns_survey 49 comments science