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How peer-reviewed and true are different claims

Peer review means specialists screened a paper. It does not mean the claim cannot be wrong.

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From the opening

Peer review means that, before a journal publishes a manuscript, an editor asks other specialists to read it and report on its methods, its fit, and its obvious faults. Their approval is a claim about that screening, not a claim that the result has been settled forever. The opening covers a screening before publication, reviewers can miss the error, and retraction comes after the gate.

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A screening before publication
Reviewers can miss the error
Retraction comes after the gate
Procedure is not the world
Where the idea stops applying
A distinction worth keeping

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Editorial peer review before journal publication
Retraction as a later correction of a published paper

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How peer-reviewed and true are different claims

From the opening

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