Right. Peer Review doesn't mean "this paper is correct", it merely means "this is interesting enough to be worth a look." It's a way of filtering out the clea

Right. Peer Review doesn't mean "this paper is correct", it merely means "this is interesting enough to be worth a look." It's a way of filtering out the clearly bogus and the trivial/repetitive. True progress starts after peer review and publication, when other scientists look at the same model, write their critiques, and do their own experiments. I'd think this would be old hat to anyone who went to grad school in a technical field. I know in my department, all students were expected to read and discuss several peer-reviewed papers each term. Finding methodological weaknesses, oversimplifications, or outright mistakes was common.