Guest Post:  Preprints Serve the Anti-science Agenda – This Is Why We Need Peer Review - The Scholarly Kitchen

"For decades, scientists have relied on peer review to ensure scientific knowledge is built on a foundation of rigor and credibility. However, preprints are adding to the crumbling of that foundation, which is already under attack by anti-science political agendas....

Yes – there are benefits to more freely and quickly sharing science. But preprints join predatory publishers and paper mills to fuel a growing challenge for our society: distinguishing credible science from inaccurate, biased, and misleading work. This is encouraging a race to the bottom, where good science can carry the same weight as bad science, ‘alternative facts,’ and ‘truthiness’ – which is actually no weight at all...."