Peer review is just internet trolls for science

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I was recently made aware of how petty, back-stabby, front-stabby, cliquish, in a word "political" the peer review process can be. I thought that peer-review was a rigorous, objective process, but no, it's just an "old boys" network once again.

I found that out while in medical residency and fellowship. 100% political. Has nothing to do with the validity of a study. It is why I left academic medicine.

> JOSS uses the github issue tracker and pull request system to write all reviews for the submitted paper describing the software that was developed

Github is not a good choice for the free and open-source software. It's owned by Microsoft known for its outrageous privacy practices [0]. Github also prevents people from anonymously reading and contributing [1] and so on.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40592789; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12305598; https://noyb.eu/en/microsofts-xandr-grants-gdpr-rights-rate-...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971550

JOSS created the MVP. I think there is plenty of room to develop the idea further.

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