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i dont think peer review is as valid as people make it out to be. regulation should be introduced to have more rigorous reproduce-ability and government funding
by elisharobinson 6y ago
i dont think peer review is as valid as people make it out to be. regulation should be introduced to have more rigorous reproduce-ability and government funding for research should have quotas meant specially for reproducing findings independently. peer review alone is no longer a valid method of getting consensus about science. the retractions from new england journal of medicine should give a good indication of how rotten academia has gotten.
- vikramkr 6y agoIt's not perfect. Preprints are even less perfect. Just having a big finding based off of a single peer reviewed article is also a very bad idea. You really can't get much certainty until you've got dozens of papers and meta-analysis finding consistent threads, but people don't seem inclined to wait for that before reporting unfortunately