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The Absurdity of Peer Review

What the pandemic revealed about scientific publishing

 
Mark Humphries
 

Mark Humphries

 

3 days ago*7 min read

 
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I was reading my umpteenth news story about Covid-19 science, a story
about the latest research into how to make indoor spaces safe from
infection, about whether cleaning surfaces or changing the air was
more important. And it was bothering me. Not because it was dull
(which, of course, it was: there are precious few ways...

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