Comment Comment by throwpoaster > On Christmas Eve, 9 “peer-reviewed” economics papers were quietly retracted by Elsevier, the world’s largest academic publisher.It is becoming clearer and clearer that peer review is a systematized band wagon fallacy.It relies on the belief that one’s peers in a competitive field, presented with new ideas and evidence, will simply accept it.And yet, “science progresses one funeral at a time” is an old joke.“Peer review” is an indication an idea is safe for granting agency bureaucrats to fund, not an indication of its truth, validity, or utility. parent throwpoaster 8 months ago
It is becoming clearer and clearer that peer review is a systematized band wagon fallacy.
It relies on the belief that one’s peers in a competitive field, presented with new ideas and evidence, will simply accept it.
And yet, “science progresses one funeral at a time” is an old joke.
“Peer review” is an indication an idea is safe for granting agency bureaucrats to fund, not an indication of its truth, validity, or utility.