Nature's Take: what's next for the preprint revolution
Nature Podcast
The Risks of Preprints
The idea that a government or a lab can issue its findings prior to formal period publication has probably existed since the year zero. I think the interesting thing is that the pandemic has sort of coincided with this sort of hyper viral technological ability to move things quickly. And also, this rapid response, governments around the world were eagerly trying to get any information they could about coved when this first happened. But that was also not without its dangers. You're probably all familiar with the ivometin scandal. These were preprint papers that basically went viral,. and this sort of information that wasn't accurate, as it turned out, was out in the world.
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