Follow the whole thread of @brembs here: https://mastodon.social/@brembs/112586300096993602 Publishing fake science in "prestigious" journals is far more dangerous than uploading it to public repositories or academia.edu and the like, because of the halo effect associated with the (bad) habit of linking these journals with science rather than with the so-called "prestige", which is just reputation (earned, unearned, or just imposed by bureaucratic research evaluation). #OpenScience
Björn Brembs (@brembs@mastodon.social)
Yet another anti-vax paper in a reputable journal: https://christinapagel.substack.com/p/guest-post-a-terrible-academic-paper Tell me again how these journals add any value? The more reputation they have, the more they cost, but the worse the scien…Mastodon