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peer review only really took off in the last few decades and it has been a disaster. Nothing about my post says anything about the scientific method, it's about
by ren_engineer 4y ago
peer review only really took off in the last few decades and it has been a disaster. Nothing about my post says anything about the scientific method, it's about sham fields that lack rigor and use cartels of influence to push each others pet theories to support their own ideologies.
- nativeit 4y agoWell this is somewhat ironic, but “citation needed” on that first statement.
- ren_engineer 4y agosimplest is a visualization of the term usage - https://scalar.usc.edu/works/the-art-of-academic-peer-reviewing/media/PeerReviewonGoogleBooksNGramViewer.jpg https://scalar.usc.edu/works/the-art-of-academic-peer-review... but looking at the criticism and history sections of the wikipedia page will cover it in more detail. It basically promotes gatekeeping and group think, as seen with the Alzheimer's research issue which wasted billions of dollars and slowed progress by decades via effectively an academic cartel. Funding becoming tied to publication which relies on peer review made things worse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholarly_peer_review https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholarly_peer_review