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Rebuttal Agents, Not Rebuttal Text: Why ‘Verify‑Then‑Write’ Is the Only Scalable Future

Opening — Why this matters now Peer review rebuttals are one of the few moments in modern science where precision still beats fluency. Deadlines are tight, stakes are high, and every sentence is implicitly a legal statement about what the paper does—and does not—claim. Yet this is exactly where many researchers now lean on large language models. ...

January 21, 2026 · 3 min · Zelina