Science is quickly devolving into teams.
People who are fans of a technology, methodology or approach serve as cheerleaders even for flawed papers/preprints because they give result that fits desired narrative.
"Congratulations on an excellent job"
"Spectacular work"
🧵🧵
This leads those who are less savvy to believe that the paper/preprint is indeed excellent.
Given many people get their news from media outlets who may frame the tone based on what KOLs are tweeting, this may distort priorities by docs, scientists and most powerfully the general public and policy makers.
Yet, if people do point out the problems on twitter and elsewhere, they are called:
* rude
* uncouth
* unfair
I'm sure this happens in many sectors of science, but we are definitely seeing this an area I care a lot about: risk stratification.
Do you want me to talk about one recent preprint which despite having many serious flaws, has been called:
"well done"
"important results"
"great work"
"finally" adding evidence (many prior studies ignored)
"we need more studies like this"
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