Welcome back to another episode of the talk today.

We are going through how to spot BS papers without having to have any scientific background.

So the first thing we're going to talk about, guys, this is just a box you can check on any sort of website where you look for papers.

It's a box that says peer reviewed.

And what that basically means is people in this person's field have read their paper and have like approved it.

It's not by a crazy.

There are some crazies out there who's like they might still have a title and like they might publish a crazy paper.

And nobody in their field is going to actually approve of that paper.

Right.

So this is a really rigorous process.

It gets sent out anonymously, right?

Yeah.

So I think I shared in the...

You've peer reviewed.

Yeah, of course, yeah, because if you're in the literature, they need other people to read it,

so they'll send you an article.

You agree to review it.

If you have any conflict, then you have to declare that.

And if you're non-conflicted, then you're asked to review.

And you say, is this worthy of publication?

Is it new?

That's one of the questions that's asked.

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