Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic led to unprecedented exposure of scientific activity in the public sphere, in which social media played a key role, eliciting both enthusiasm and concern about the changing relationship between science and society. This article focuses on the exceptional retraction of an article from the journal The Lancet – widely commented on as Lancet Gate – under fire from critics on Twitter. The article in question, published on 22 May 2020, reopened the debate on the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine and sparked a massive controversy on Twitter, leading to its retraction on 6 June. Some commentators saw this sequence as a victory for the collective vigilance enabled by Twitter, acting as a platform for ‘post-publication peer review’ (PPPR). Drawing on a survey combining analysis of online interactions and interviews, we describe in detail the conditions of attention and mobilization on the platform. Although many researchers were present and expressed themselves, their criticism remained largely individual, diluted in largely politicized and polarized commentaries, leading above all to a ‘disorganized scepticism’ made up of a juxtaposition of positions.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.470 | 0.171 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".