Peer review is suffocating science 

You know peer review, right?
It’s the way academics check each other’s research papers.
It ensures that only the good ones are published and prevents the bad ones from getting through.
Right?
Wrong.
Peer review does precisely the opposite of what you think it does.
It prevents the good papers from being published, and ensures that only the bad ones get through.
Peer review is suffocating science.
If we want to reverse the stagnation of science over the last 50 years, then we’ve got to get rid of peer review.
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I highly recommend you read Adam Mastroianni’s www.adammastro... splendid article The rise and fall of peer review www.experiment...
I first heard Adam’s ideas about peer review in his conversation Adam Mastroianni on Peer Review and the Academic Kitchen www.econtalk.o... with Russ Roberts russroberts.info/ on EconTalk russroberts.in...
Why has there been no progress in physics since 1973?
• article lasttheory.com...
• audio lasttheory.com...
• video lasttheory.com...
Scientific papers:
• The journal Nature began to require peer review in 1973 newscience.sub...
• Millions of academic articles are published every year blog.cdnscience...
• Some scientists simply make stuff up research.uh.ed...
• Fraudulent studies make it into respectable journals like Science www.science.or... Nature retractionwatc... and The Lancet www.bmj.com/co...
Physicists:
• Isaac Newton en.wikipedia.o...
• Albert Einstein’s en.wikipedia.o... four papers en.wikipedia.o... published in 1905
• Max Planck’s en.wikipedia.o... principle that science progresses one funeral at a time en.wikipedia.o...
The Wolfram Physics Project www.wolframphy...
• Stephen Wolfram www.stephenwol...
• Jonathan Gorard www.wolframphy...
My projects:
• The Last Theory lasttheory.com/
• Open Web Mind www.openwebmin...
Image of Adam Mastroianni www.adammastro... by permission from Adam Mastroianni
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