Grace LindsayThis, from PNAS reviewing instructions, is actually pretty good:
"The purpose of peer review is not to demonstrate proficiency in identifying flaws."
We're all just trying to flaunt our flaw-finding faculties.
MO Sugerman@Neurograce That’s how so many of us were trained in grad school: read this article, find the flaws, discuss them in seminar. 🤷♂️
@mosugerman yea I guess we need to focus on reframing the goal in journal clubs! Still identify flaws but say why they matter and how they could realistically be addressed
Marcel Haas@Neurograce @mosugerman during my student years, most journal clubs were indeed about burning papers to the ground. With one supervisor, though, they were about "what can we learn from this paper?" That last approach was much more fruitful.