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  • petersuberpetersuber
    Jun 11, 2026, 5:13 PM

    Paul Litvak wrote a thoughtful piece on the limitations of the scientific journal article and the advantages of a proposed new genre or structure.
    paullitvak.com/p/the-future-of

    The new structure he describes is similar to one I proposed in 2012: one that would disaggregate claims and connect each one to the current evidence. See my 2012 essay, "The idea of an open-access evidence rack."
    nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.Inst

    One difference is that his would use . Mine would use . But his could also use crowdsourcing and mine could also use AI.

    Another is that his seems meant to stand alone. Mine is meant to be a dynamic collection of "perpetually updated, public footnotes" that might stand alone or might be cited, as footnotes, by articles, books, and any other new genres that might come along.

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  • petersuberpetersuber
    Jun 12, 2026, 1:19 PM

    @UlrikeHahn @icymi_law
    Ulrike, thanks for pointing this out. I missed it at the time. I'm glad to see support for these similar proposals coming from such different directions. Although I'm semi-retired, I'd be happy to take part in discussions on their further evolution.

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  • Ulrike HahnUlrikeHahn
    Jun 12, 2026, 4:42 PM

    @petersuber @icymi_law we kind of lost momentum as the reception wasn’t particularly warm trying to publish this in mainstream journals, but maybe that was just the wrong route! It would be nice to talk about this and maybe get some better ideas about possible paths forward…

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