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From my experience conflict of interests and funding sources is a disclosure enforced by the journal

Being a preprint, this is obviously neither peer reviewed nor vetted by a journal.

In this case, I cannot deduce what journal they plan on submitting to (if they plan to at all)

Yeah, I don’t know what the solution is, but I’ve certainly noticed a trend in clickbate websites reporting on preprint studies that often don’t pass peer review after the fact.

This is a major issue in scientific reporting and research in general. It’s particularly damaging because of anchoring bias.

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