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And just to add on top of this - there is to the best of my knowledge little if any research that shows that the current practice of publication and peer review
by m12k 5y ago
And just to add on top of this - there is to the best of my knowledge little if any research that shows that the current practice of publication and peer review is actually effective at weeding out bad science. The current replication crisis in psychology and other fields would suggest that it's actually quite bad at it. For a community that is supposed to be based on the ideal of experimentation and falsifiability, scientists are surprisingly willing to just accept at face value, that the current process is sound, without actually scrutinizing this hypothesis.
- codethief 5y ago> The current replication crisis in psychology and other fields would suggest that it's actually quite bad at it. Not saying that you're necessarily wrong but be careful not to compare apples to oranges: There is a huge difference between fields like math & physics on the one hand and fields like psychology on the other.
- xhkkffbf 5y agoDefinitely, but both use peer review.
- codethief 5y agoBut peer review works completely differently in math & physics than in psychology. In math and (theoretical) physics, practically all results (claims) can in principle be reproduced (tested) by other people. Sure reviewers are usually short on time and won't verify every single detail but at the same time – being experts in their fields – they tend to be extremely good at distinguishing the "easy" arguments from more intricate ones and can usually come up with rough arguments as to why (or why not) a given new result makes sense in light of existing results & literature.
- whimsicalism 5y agoI don't think it is accurate to use problems in the field of psychology to indict peer review in math or physics.