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Online outrage mobs are replacing peer-reviewed scientific papers

Due process is being shelved and activists complaining online are causing papers to get retracted.

Scientific journals have been under fire for a while now for their staunchly profit-oriented business models that are said to undermine both research and open data.

But the case detailed by Colin Wright, an evolutionary biologist, presents a different kind of criticism: namely, that journals are now caving to online outrage and dropping what would have otherwise been acceptable scientific papers.

https://twitter.com/SwipeWright/status/1256000279092191234

The paper in question was authored by Stephen Gliske, and deals with gender dysphoria.

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