Research Papers vs. Blog Posts

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Scientific research papers cite other research papers for related or prior knowledge they build on; they cite blog posts as primary material to work with in theory building; two very different things 1/4

A blog post needs to (a) properly use the scientific method and (b) be socially validated by peer review to be considered a scientific research article; for (b) it needs a traditional journal 2/4

The problem with research papers are for-profit publishers and the to-pay open access model; publishers are bottom feeding to increase revenue, hurting the reputation of science with low quality papers 3/4

Please don’t start another journal unless you have an answer that solves the conflict between for-profit publishing and academic publishing incentives @timoreilly 4/4

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