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This completely undermines the purpose of peer-reviewing, though.

If it's necessary to do your own peer-reviewing for a publishing house, it could just as well be arxiv.

I know, but that's the reality. Sometimes the garbage I read from some journals is the reason I want to quit academia. How the hell those get published!! I have stopped taking journals at face value. Many things I read from Science or Nature journals (in my field) are just wrong

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