05-17-23, 09:51 PM
Jo Nova
The largest scientific experiment in history was Peer Review itself and it failed
Jo Nova
May 17, 2023
Excerpt:
Peer Review has been a sixty year experiment with no control group
It’s touted as the “gold standard” of science, yet the evidence shows Peer Review is an abject failure.
There are 30,000 scientific journals that publish nearly 5 million articles a year, and the only thing we know for sure is that two-thirds of papers with major flaws will still get published, fraud is almost never discovered, and peer review has effectively crushed groundbreaking new discoveries.
By Adam Mastroianni, Experimental History
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Retraction Watch shows a growing of a failed papers.
LINK
The largest scientific experiment in history was Peer Review itself and it failed
Jo Nova
May 17, 2023
Excerpt:
Peer Review has been a sixty year experiment with no control group
It’s touted as the “gold standard” of science, yet the evidence shows Peer Review is an abject failure.
There are 30,000 scientific journals that publish nearly 5 million articles a year, and the only thing we know for sure is that two-thirds of papers with major flaws will still get published, fraud is almost never discovered, and peer review has effectively crushed groundbreaking new discoveries.
By Adam Mastroianni, Experimental History
LINK
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Retraction Watch shows a growing of a failed papers.
LINK
“A theory that is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific.” – Karl Popper
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