“Peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals” are not the air-tight source you seem to think they are. A lot of them have become echo chambers that largely seek to only acquire more citations for the sake of having more citations. I’m not saying they all deserve to be thrown in the trash or anything, but likewise I’m also not going to blindly believe whatever they’re/you’re telling me just because they’ve got “Journal” on the front cover. Here, check out this blog post, it goes into some of the history of Academic Journals and how they’ve fallen from grace over the last several decades. Oh also they’re quickly becoming inundated with AI, both in terms of submissions and even the review process itself, and personally I’m not going to let an AI tell me if AI is good or bad

https://davidoks.blog/p/how-citations-ruined-science

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