Fast news or fake news?: The advantages and the pitfalls of rapid publication through pre‐print servers during a pandemic: EMBO reports: Vol 21, No 6

"Since the start of the COVID‐19 pandemic, hundreds of scientific papers that are related to the disease in one way or another have been uploaded to pre‐print servers for anyone to read and comment on. This has been a boon of early insights into SARS‐CoV‐2 for the research community, but there are also concerns that some of these attract more credence than they deserve. For some, pre‐print servers represent a windfall in rapid information at a crucial time for society, while for others, they are a murky meandering away from scientific rigour...."