[Open-Science-de] Fwd: Invitation to co-sign our article “Open Science Saves Lives” to show that Open Science Principles are supported by a large population of Scientists

[Heidi Seibold]

Maybe interesting for you.

Best,
Heidi


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Subject: 	Invitation to co-sign our article “Open Science Saves Lives” 
to show that Open Science Principles are supported by a large population 
of Scientists
Date: 	Tue, 25 Aug 2020 18:54:13 +0200
From: 	Lonni Besançon <lonni.besancon at gmail.com>



Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a large number of 
low-quality studies have been conducted and shared as preprints or 
fast-tracked for publication in journals, wasting research funds and 
decreasing efficiency of the research process. In some cases, 
questionable claims made by these studies have been amplified by the 
media and resulted in dire consequences on public policy, research, and 
associated public health, such as the high-profile case of Gautret et 
al. (2020), which resulted in Hydroxychloroquine being promoted as a 
cure for COVID-19 despite extremely weak and questionable evidence of 
its efficiency. In this paper, we attempt to identify the root causes of 
these problems by analysing data related to each stage of the research 
process, and find that 27% of COVID-19-related retractions were due to 
flawed designs or analyses, 43% of fast-tracked articles, accepted in a 
day or less, had potential conflicts of interest between authors and 
many unreviewed COVID-19 preprints were widely covered by news. In line 
with these results, we argue that Open Science Practices have the 
potential to vastly improve the quality of future research on COVID-19 
-- for example by improving study designs through pre-registration, 
ensuring reliability through open code and data, and exposing conflicts 
of interest through open peer review -- and that public education about 
Open Science practices (e.g., preprints) will be necessary to prevent 
further loss of scientific progress and life moving forward.

The article is available here: 
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.13.249847v1

While we may not all be working in medical research, we believe that our 
findings and recommendations extend to all fields of research and 
thereby invite you to co-sign this article to show that Open Science 
principles are supported by a large population of scientists. Signatures 
will be added to the paper as supplementary material

The process of co-signing this article will go as follow:

  *
    You will have until August 31 at midnight (PDT) to co-sign.
  *
    You have to provide an institutional email address that we will
    manually verify before sending you a verification email that will
    require action on your part.


(We welcome feedback on the preprint and may make some minor changes to 
the text prior to submission.)

Please click here to co-sign the article: 
https://forms.gle/vagxi5mrQLi5hHpx5


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