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Sure, but does one take Nature at their word?

> Scientific Reports is an online peer-reviewed open access scientific mega journal published by Nature Portfolio, covering all areas of the natural sciences. The journal was launched in 2011.[1] The journal has announced that their aim is to assess solely the scientific validity of a submitted paper, rather than its perceived importance, significance or impact.[2]

Of that last line, this is quite literally the opposite. The only grounds to accept this paper is how on-trend this topic is. The "scientific validity" of correlating floating point averages over historical text documents, and brain blood flow... is, c. 0%




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