Has peer review hit rock bottom?

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Just as we wonder how many shootings it will take for us to change our gun laws, we should be wondering what it will take for us to realize our peer review system is broken.
Peer review supposedly ensures a publication is of sufficient quality to be included in the scientific literature, but time and time again at Retraction Watch and PubPeer we see blatant examples of fraud that have slipped by…

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March 19, 2017 at 01:48AM