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Preprints help journalism, not hinder it

  1. Jonathan Tennant

    1. Open Science MOOC, Leicester, UK.

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  2. Laurent Gatto

    1. de Duve Institute, Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.

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  3. Corina Logan

    1. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

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In suggesting that preprints could distort the public’s understanding of science, Tom Sheldon perpetuates the fallacy that peer review is a guarantee of validity (Nature 559, 445; 2018). There are countless examples to the contrary (see, for instance, A. Margalida and M. À. Colomer PeerJ 4, e1670; 2016).

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Nature 560, 553 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-06055-3

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Jonathan Tennant is founder of the preprint server paleorXiv; and member of the Knowledge Exchange working group on preprints.

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