Friggin hilarious. These guys renamed Jews in Hitler's "Mein Kampf", submitted it and got it accepted. Their biggest troll, using all the accepted phraseology, was: 
(start at 5:00)
Posted on 04/19/2021 7:56:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The journals, which include BMJ Open Science and Royal Society Open Science, say they will accept articles reviewed by a nonprofit “peer community” organization.
It’s the first time that journals have guaranteed that they will accept the recommendations of another body with no further review, says Chris Chambers, a cognitive neuroscientist at Cardiff University and one of the founders of the peer-review organization, called Peer Community In Registered Reports (PCI RR). The service—which PCI RR will provide free to authors and journals—will add to the existential questions facing journals, says Jason Hoyt, CEO of PeerJ, an open-access family of journals that has signed up for the initiative. “What are you paying publishers to do, exactly?” he asks. For PeerJ, which is committed to
The new venture joins a range of existing “peer communities,” such as Peer Community In Ecology and Peer Community In Paleontology. Those communities offer free peer review of preprints, with published reviews and letters of recommendation for papers that pass muster, as a way for researchers to signal the quality of their work—and keep it free to read—without using traditional journals or paying high open-access publishing fees. PCI RR says it will accept registered report submissions in disciplines across science, medicine, social science, and the humanities. The goal, Chambers says, is for PCI RR to become a “clearing house” for registered reports.
It’s a promising idea, says Lisa Rasmussen... Like journals, PCI RR will rely on scientists to provide volunteer labor. That could make it difficult to maintain a diverse pool of reviewers and keep workloads sustainable as the project grows, Rasmussen says. But the project has “chutzpah,” she says—and with its detailed public guidelines, publication of peer reviews, and emphasis on open data, it will help make publishing more transparent and accessible.
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I can see problems.
For one, it’s no longer truly a peer review.
We haven’t had true “peer review” for a long time. The volume of submitted manuscripts has been overwhelming, and in most fields the science too specialized for meaningful peer review to take place. This is an attempt to cope with the problem, but it will be doomed to fall short.
Already, worldly researchers have grown cynical and talk not of “peer review” but “pal review.” meaning that there are only a few people qualified to pass on each other’s research, and they all know each other, and they aren’t going to sabotage their friends. Science as an enterprise, it ain’t what it pretends to be.
Fundamental science has already spent the last 60-years immersed in the dark ages... Why perpetuate it for the next 60-years?
Friggin hilarious. These guys renamed Jews in Hitler's "Mein Kampf", submitted it and got it accepted. Their biggest troll, using all the accepted phraseology, was: (start at 5:00)
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