I saw the headlines (CNN et al) but ducked this yesterday. Increasingly that’s my posture on headline-grabbing preprints (or studious misreading of press statements, WHO) ... I wait for #scienceTwitter to provide missing peer review. Like this. #PNAS
Jeremy Faust makes excellent points about trust and credibility-and how crappy methodology weakens both.
Journals must do a better job of screening preprints, of marking them aggressively as NOT PEER REVIEWED.
News media need to stop chasing clicks by jumping on preprints
Second detailed critique of PNAS preprint
Third critique of PNAS preprint on “airborne transmission”
Early criticism of PNAS airborne paper from the UK
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