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Anonymous Peer-review Comments May Spark Legal Battle

Posted by Soulskill on from the jig-is-up dept.

sciencehabit writes: The power of anonymous comments — and the liability of those who make them — is at the heart of a possible legal battle embroiling PubPeer, an online forum launched in October 2012 for anonymous, postpublication peer review. A researcher who claims that comments on PubPeer caused him to lose a tenured faculty job offer now intends to press legal charges against the person or people behind these posts — provided he can uncover their identities, his lawyer says.

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  1. Anyone else? by Hognoxious · · Score: 1, Funny

    For a moment I thought it said PubBeer.

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