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Yeah I wouldn't expect it to counter such problems. Peer review is by its nature review by other people in the same field. If you have a field where "bogus" met
by eigenket 3y ago
Yeah I wouldn't expect it to counter such problems. Peer review is by its nature review by other people in the same field. If you have a field where "bogus" methods are being used in thousands of papers then you aren't going to be able to get things reviewed properly.
This isn't an indictment of peer review as it is practised in every field.
- PaulHoule 3y agoI’ll say a good field is an island in an ocean of bad fields. Look at hep-th. If in 100 years people conclude there is no evidence for supersymmetry and extra dimensions something like 90% of that field will be “not even wrong”. There is so much of the drunk looking for his lost keys under a lamp. I mean, there is a huge industry in 2-d gravity where it is possible to calculate things but gravity doesn’t attract in 2-d so the line between that and Newton’s apple is unclear. I’ve talked to astro-ph refugees who think that current theories about accretion disks are “not even wrong”. Then there are all the folks who tell me firewalls make no sense because there is no such thing as the event horizon (locally) but from the viewpoint of people who fall in it is a tiny difference getting killed at the apparent horizon meanwhile the nonsensical “black hole information paradox” (sorry, no unitarity = no quantum mechanics) still gets breathless and insufferable articles written about it just because somebody famous for their disability made a bet. If young people were able to get established in the field you wouldn’t see people so fixated on bad ideas.