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by hannob 3794 days ago
> Nature is perhaps the most prestigious and respected academic journal in existence...

Maybe the first, certainly not the second.

There's an unfortunate correlation between sloppy science and popular journals that's been shown again and again. Nature is one of the journals with the highest rates of retractions[1]. Thinking "it's been published in Nature, it must be good science" is certainly not reasonable in any way.

[1] http://iai.asm.org/content/79/10/3855/F1.expansion.html

1 comments

You've convinced me... thank you for using evidence to back your argument