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Interesting!

Random thought: If this catches on in a big way, have you thought of how the system will deal with the fundamentally political nature of some areas of medical research? Real effort is going into trying to subvert this process at the source, so why not the summary?

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We'll deal with that if it really catches on, but if that happens I'd say it's a better problem to have than no one wanting it at all :)

If you have any ideas we'd love to hear them though!

Citation graph analysis might be useful, but I'd have to think about it a bit.

I suspect you can make a nearly risk free bet that if there is a significant amount of money being made that depends on the results of a contentious issue in the existing science, there are deep problems in the related literature.

How about CRISPR? There is a tremendous controversy right now over who should get recognized (Nobel? Patents?) for CRISPR's invention

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