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shinyshiny423 karma

I'm seeing a massive influx of popular press articles based on preprint servers like biorxiv.

Is there a danger in the public equating preprints with peer reviewed papers? There haven't been any disasters yet, but if a widely reported preprint is turfed by the peer review process, might this undermine confidence in the scientific establishment?

What responsibility do journalists have to educate the public about the scientific process when using such source material?