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[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 3 points 6 hours ago

Why is it called that?

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 12 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

That is literally just a worse version of making scientific papers available to start with. This is worse sci hub.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I mean once you zero in on a particular paper of interest, then you can always find the full version.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 1 points 27 minutes ago

i can appreciate that, but really academic papers are already concisely organized for someone to analyze them. i hate reading them almost as much as i hated writing them, but there is a utility to them.

the abstract is right there, and if it invites further scrutiny, one reads the intro and conclusions. and if that isn't enough, one can read the materials and methods (true dorks) to satisfy curiosity about the experimental design or poke holes in it.

scientific articles already are the stripped down unit of efficient but critical dissemination. to summarize many of these articles is to "lose" the capacity for critical engagement with the research, imo and potentially give the impression of endorsement, i think.

as someone who had to read a bunch of them as part of a literature review in grad school, one of the lessons was that sometimes the results are ambiguous, sometimes meta-analysis can't synthesize into any bite-sized conclusions without a shitload of caveats. sometimes there's been research into a thing and it was done well and stuff happened in the investigation, but can't conclude how to apply it.

maybe the models can incorporate all that nuance and still effectively distill the information into something easily passed along, but i have reservations.