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Comment Not quite (Score 4, Informative) 11

That's not actually what the announcement says:

When submitting review articles or position papers, authors must include documentation of successful peer review to receive full consideration. Review/survey articles or position papers submitted to arXiv without this documentation will be likely to be rejected and not appear on arXiv.

(my emphasis). They're still accepting preprints of research papers without prior peer review.

Comment Re:Inability to judge short vs long term effects (Score 1) 159

Or take pain medication with opiates as an example.

That's quite a bad example. The long-term effect of not treating chronic pain is that your nerves become so used to transmitting pain signals that they keep doing it even after the actual cause has resolved itself. It's a lose-lose scenario. I've tried both paths (no medication in my 20s when I had a serious carpal tunnel inflammation; opiates in my 30s when I had a damaged disc from a traffic incident) and although the opiates didn't fully remove the pain I would choose to take them again.

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