[Groxx]

>“Given the controversial nature of his discovery, we have invited 100 experts and have issued a general invitation to over 5,000 scientists from the scientific community to review the paper and to offer their critical analysis ... No other paper in the history of science has undergone such a thorough vetting, and never before in the history of science has the scientific community been given the opportunity to critically analyze an important research paper before it is published.”

Seriously? That seems... sad. Borderline pathetic, that they're apparently that insular.

[emeltzer]

This isn't true. Claims about something never occurring in the history of XYZ incredibly basic human endeavor should be taken with a tbsp of salt.

[nopassrecover]

It does say "before it is published". Presumably you would want to vet a paper with trusted colleagues before releasing it even semi-publicly.

[Groxx]

But once it's published, it's (seemingly) most-often behind a paywall, blocking further access to those who could analyze or benefit from it.

[robryan]

Journal of Cosmology is open access on the internet. Given the field though, I doubt anyone that could really add to these findings is going to be held back by a subscription, I assume it's very hard to get access to these rocks and without the evidence to experiment on your just taking the authors word really.

Very different from say an algorithms paper where anyone can implement and run the code and possibly find improvements.