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Peer review: Trial by Twitter

Peer review: Trial by Twitter
Blogs and tweets are ripping papers apart within days of publication,
leaving researchers unsure how to react.
Apoorva Mandavilli
Nature News
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110119/full/469286a.html

"Scientists discover keys to long life," proclaimed The Wall Street
Journal headline on 1 July last year. "Who will live to be 100? Genetic
test might tell," said National Public Radio a day later.

These and hundreds of similarly enthusiastic headlines were touting a
paper in Science in which researchers claimed to have identified a set of
genes that could predict human longevity with 77% accuracy a finding with
potentially huge implications for medicine, health policy and the economy.

But even as the popular media was trumpeting the finding, other
researchers were taking to the web to criticize the paper's methodology.
"We expect that most of the results of this study will not have the same
longevity as its participants," sniped a blog posted by researchers at the
personal genomics company 23andMe, based in Mountain View, California.

Critics were particularly perturbed by the genome-wide association study
(GWAS) that the authors had used to identify their longevity genes: the
centenarians and the controls in the study had been tested with different
kinds of DNA chips, which potentially skewed the results.

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This critical onslaught was striking but not exceptional. Papers are
increasingly being taken apart in blogs, on Twitter and on other social
media within hours rather than years, and in public, rather than at small
conferences or in private conversation.

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