@bn@toot.community I understand - for me, publication in predatory journals with bad peer review is worse than a preprint because it carries the imprimatur of "peer review". It won't fool a researcher in the filed, but a journalist, a doctor, or an immunologist reading a neuroscience paper might be taken in. Whereas with the preprint, your guard is up. And responsible science writers add a "this has not yet been peer reviewed" disclaimer