"Retractions take years when they happen at all, and the retracted work continues to be cited."

This is only true when the fake news is desirable to keep in public view. Retraction of fraudulent or inaccurate research that profits deep pockets can be resisted for decades, such as papers ghost written by Monsanto that claimed glyphosate was harmless that resisted retraction for decades. However, research that threatens deep pockets, such as the thousands of papers showing net harm from the covid jabs, lockdowns, masking, and the other scientifically baseless 'protective' measures imposed since 2020, is retracted almost instantly, or never published at all.

Researchers have resorted to NOSTR to enable their papers to remain publicly available despite the deeply financially compromised journal system retracting their research for money.

PEVO is flawed from the onset because you introduce accreditation, which is used today to prevent people from publishing research that threatens deep pockets. Ten of thousands of doctors have been threatened with losing their licenses to practice medicine, and many that remained dedicated to the facts shown in their criticisms of the covid plandemic have lost their licenses, accreditations, and jobs. The facts are facts regardless of whom publishes them. People can assess for themselves whether they have confidence in research published, and the reproduction of the research enables peers to ascertain whether it is factual or not.

'reputation scores' are highly manipulable, as is obvious from Hive's reputation metric. Introducing such mechanisms as accreditation and reputation introduces means of gatekeeping that will be employed to prevent publication of research that threatens deep pockets, and to enable pretense of fraudulent research to validity. There are mechanisms, such as NOSTR and ArcHive, that simply allow research to be publicly available to people to read and assess for themselves, and neither of them (if ArcHive actually worked) would create potential financial incentive to restrict or promote publication. What is even more potentially useful is a platform that enables people to publish anonymously, so they cannot be extorted by deep pockets.

Thanks!

Edit: extortion is a terrible weapon that prevents researchers dependent on grants and institutions for their livelihoods from publishing research that counters official narratives. Del Bigtree published last year research and OMG style hidden camera expose of exactly that situation, a researcher that dared not publish his findings because he would be vilified by the vast network of captive fact checkers, lose his job, have his reputation slandered by lying spooks, and his evidence of harm he had compiled that was disadvantageous to spooks and the MIC claiming 'safe and effective' would absolutely end his professional career if he published it.

Del Bigtree published it anyway, and also the discussion being covertly recorded that detailed the concerns of the researcher, in an attempt to shield them from the backlash and excoriation that has ended tens of thousands of careers since 2020, and has long been how gatekeepers in science have prevented their errant theories from being publicly disproved. Anyone that looks at published research with an eye to verifying is well aware that most papers published today, >60% of published research, cannot be replicated, for a variety of reasons. Some of it depends on proprietary data that isn't shared, some of it on theoretical models, such as the infamous false claims that the UK would suffer horrendous fatalities from Covid that were used to push the jabs, and a huge number of Nobel Prize winning research has been proved to depend on deliberately falsified data, such as images that have been photoshopped, outright fraud.

Some of the most respected experts in their fields, such as Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Ryan Cole, and many more, tens of thousands of doctors and researchers at the tops of their fields, have been debanked, fired, disaccredited, publicly excoriated, their Wikipedia entries have been vandalized and locked, preventing them from correcting the libel therein, and this threat looms over anyone that dares to publish factual data tyrants, banksters, and spooks depend on keeping secret.

I personally have been beaten in the street and my children's lives threatened when crooked cops sicced their drug dealing snitches on me for publicly revealing their crimes. This is not a rare occurrence, but the heart of the business model of the aforementioned larcenous tyrants that intend to steal everything we own over our dead bodies, and whom literally control the world through bribery, blackmail, and brutal violence, exhaustively detailed in the Epstein files (only some of which have been released, and in which the perps are redacted and the victims publicly exposed), the Panama Papers, and 'Confessions of an Economic Hit Man', as well as the history of American Archaeology which crushed the careers of researchers publishing evidence of humans in the Americas prior to ~13kya (such as Ales Hrdlicka, whom founded the Smithsonian Institute, and infamously collected - and destroyed - skeletons and finds which proved his Beringia crossing theory false) for over a century, which together demonstrate a global alliance and network of spooks, banksters, and extortionists run the world today. Jeffrey Epstein was not a random nobody. The Epstein family in Vienna was one of three that funded the home for the indigent in which Adolph Hitler stayed (surviving by selling his clothes) along with the Gutmans and the Rothschilds. He was on the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Steering Committee of the Bilderbergs. He was paid $25M by the Rothschilds to represent them, as he pointed out to Peter Thiel in the Epstein files, saying 'I assume you know I represent the Rothschilds'. He had deep connections to intelligence, going back to the Iran/Contra affair in which he was one of the principal arms dealers along with Adnan Khashoggi. He all but managed Bill Gates, and helped develop Gates' pivot to vaccines, and was an architect of the Covid plandemic. He was integral in the development of BTC. His associations in the modeling industry were the heart of his trafficking girls from E. Europe, and he brought Melania Trump to the US.

He was not an outlier in those circles. The key to the Epstein story is that he is typical of that crowd. He isn't dead, BTW. The body claimed to be his and autopsied had a prostate, but Epstein had a prostatectomy years before that. His exfiltration from the Manhattan jail where he was being held was anonymously reported on 4chan before his fake death was announced, and the DOJ discovered a Lt. at that jail was the reporter of that 4chan post. Donald Trump was his public BFF for ~15 years, and Trump is named in the (so far released) Epstein files more often than God is in the Bible. We need to prevent blackmail, extortion, and violence from being applied to researchers that dare to publish facts that assortment of tyrants and rogues hide from us, and that includes every scientific, financial, and industrial field, because they profit by lying to us about all of it.