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Oh, if only we had a system to pass articles that are submitted to scientific journals to some sort of expert committee, that could look at it and see if it was

Oh, if only we had a system to pass articles that are submitted to scientific journals to some sort of expert committee, that could look at it and see if it was likely to be valid. We could call it, I don't know, "peer checkup", or "expert review", or...oh never mind.

ble 8y ago
Peer review can't fix broken incentives.
sn41 8y ago
The issue is that peer review never pays off directly. The time spent in reviews mostly goes down a black hole. Editorships are awarded based on publication record, and not quality of reviews. As a result, more and more, reviews will tend to be shallow and uncritical.
- rossdavidh 8y ago
  Truth.