Borgen Recommends Revamping Peer Review for a Post-COVID-19 World

Dr Borgen recaps a presentation he made at the 2022 Miami Breast Cancer Conference highlighting the flaws with preprints, outlining his recommendations for fixing peer review, and explaining how this affects cancer research.

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In today’s episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Patrick Borgen, MD, chair of the Department of Surgery and director of the Breast Cancer Program at Maimonides Medical Center, a community hospital in Brooklyn, New York. COVID-19 ravaged Maimonides in 2020 and 2021 and Dr Borgen saw the grim consequences first-hand.

The desperate scramble to understand the disease “broke” the peer review system, pushing immature, and sometimes inaccurate, science into the public sphere, he said. In this episode, Dr Borgen recapped a presentation he made at the 2022 Miami Breast Cancer Conference® highlighting the flaws with preprints, outlining his recommendations for fixing peer review, and explaining how this affects cancer research.

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