{"id":3581,"date":"2014-01-27T17:54:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T22:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=3581"},"modified":"2014-01-27T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T22:55:00","slug":"why-is-anonymity-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/27\/why-is-anonymity-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is anonymity important?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/david_colquhoun\/status\/421711880550236161\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/d.png\" alt=\"d\" width=\"512\" height=\"357\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3582\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/d.png 512w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/d-300x209.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following up on <a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/24\/well-damn-if-jack-doesnt-have-some-good-points-here\/\">these<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/27\/searching-for-post-publication-peer-review-and-a-new-use-thereof\/\">recent<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/26\/defamation-science-and-free-speech\/\">posts<\/a>\u2026 here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/david_colquhoun\/status\/421711880550236161\">twitter discussion<\/a> from a couple of weeks ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cesar_F1000\/status\/421721509149675520\">F1000&#8217;s Caeser Berrios says<\/a> that people who want to participate anonymously in post-publication peer review should get a senior scientist to relay their comments instead, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rando_matt\/status\/421723746056306688\">Matteo Malvezzi complains<\/a> that anonymity makes it impossible to check for conflicts of interest. This might make sense if we were judging an ice skating competition, but shouldn&#8217;t scientific criticism be more objective and stand on its own merits?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/david_colquhoun\/status\/421711880550236161\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following up on <a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/24\/well-damn-if-jack-doesnt-have-some-good-points-here\/\">these<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/27\/searching-for-post-publication-peer-review-and-a-new-use-thereof\/\">recent<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/26\/defamation-science-and-free-speech\/\">posts<\/a>\u2026 here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/david_colquhoun\/status\/421711880550236161\">twitter discussion<\/a> from a couple of weeks ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cesar_F1000\/status\/421721509149675520\">F1000&#8217;s Caeser Berrios says<\/a> that people who want to participate anonymously in post-publication peer&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/27\/why-is-anonymity-important\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3581"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3586,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions\/3586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}