Thursday 4 June 2020

How You Should Read Coronavirus Studies, or Any Science Paper (2020)


A great piece in the New York Times by Carl Zimmer on how a lay person might begin to make sense of scientific papers (HERE).
When you read through a scientific paper, it’s important to maintain a healthy skepticism. The ongoing flood of papers that have yet to be peer-reviewed — known as preprints — includes a lot of weak research and misleading claims. Some are withdrawn by the authors. Many will never make it into a journal. But some of them are earning sensational headlines before burning out in obscurity.