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> It's not science until it passes peer review. We all know that science is about experiments and evidence whereas peer review is a social process. Confusing
by odyssey7 25d ago
> It's not science until it passes peer review.
We all know that science is about experiments and evidence whereas peer review is a social process.
Confusing science with peer review is very unscientific. Galileo’s work did not pass the dominant socio-scientific review process of his day and we all know how that turned out. Peer review serves a purpose but peer review is not science per se — unless, perhaps, your field is sociology, and you study the social processes of science practitioners, so that peer review outcomes are the evidence that you use to study those social processes.