For a more modern feel , I ' d go Nyx , M 15 , Khans . <| sep |> The thing is opeds are usually not seen as what they are by a lot of readers . Instead of them being read as someone ' s opinion they are instead read as news . I ' m sure you ' re familiar with Merchants of Doubt . The book shows how deniers are able to use oped pieces to refute peer reviewed papers or to publish a nonpeer reviewed study . People take these articles as real science when they are nothing more than fluff pieces that have no value except to create the perception of valid debate . I think this alone shows the need to have papers actually edit these opeds . If they are knowingly writing articles to be misrepresented as facts than they should have to be scrutinized as news and held to the same standards , which will make it impossible for these false statements to spread .