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Widespread peer review is only ~50 years old. Science did just fine before it, as it will after it's phased out.
by BurningFrog 4y ago
Widespread peer review is only ~50 years old.
Science did just fine before it, as it will after it's phased out.
- jhbadger 4y agoWell, it was around but inconsistently applied. Einstein famously got angry when his work on gravity waves in 1935 was sent out to review ("I sent my paper to be published, not to be reviewed!"), and Watson & Crick's 1953 paper was going to be sent out to review but their boss, Nobel Laureate Laurence Bragg, phoned up the editor of Nature and said they needed to get it published ASAP.
- a9h74j 4y agoForty years ago there was already this sentiment, as best as I can recall the quote: "It is well known that as the scale of the research grows, peer review becomes less effective."