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1Vice-Chair for Faculty Affairs and Development, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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The publishing of science, and particularly research in psychiatry, has changed substantially in the last half-century, partially due to the transition from print on paper to the World-Wide Web and now the rise in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). How science is preserved for future generations is likely to change over the next century in ways that currently are not imaginable. Regardless of the method, the knowledge and truths gained from scientific discovery must always be preserved, but erroneous pseudoscience must not.
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