ASAPbio Community Call: The trials and tribulations of post publication peer review

In our November 2023 community call we heard from Lonni Besancon, Assistant Professor at Linkoping University, about his work investigating unreliable science and post-publication peer review. As preprint reviewing and commenting increasingly drives the push towards transparency, these topics become ever more important. Lonni has conducted multiple meta-research projects and written opinion pieces focussed on unreliable science or fraudulent data. In response to his rigorous and scientific approaches, Lonni has faced lawsuits and attacks from senior scientists. This session involved a short talk from Lonni about his experiences followed by a longer discussion with all attendees around the theme of post publication review and how, as a community, we should engage with fraudulent or unreliable science and protect those who identify such work.

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Thanks to Prof. Besancon for this work and for posting this!