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.—I highly recommend you read Adam Mastroianni’s splendid article The rise and fall of peer reviewI first heard Adam’s ideas about peer review in his conversation Adam Mastroianni on Peer Review and the Academic Kitchen with Russ Roberts on EconTalkWhy has there been no progress in physics since 1973?
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Scientific papers:
The journal Nature began to require peer review in 1973
Millions of academic articles are published every year
Some scientists simply make stuff up
Fraudulent studies make it into respectable journals like Science, Nature and The Lancet

Physicists:
Isaac Newton

Albert Einstein’s four papers published in 1905

Max Planck’s principle that science progresses one funeral at a time

The Wolfram Physics Project:
Stephen Wolfram
Jonathan Gorard
My projects:
The Last Theory
Open Web Mind
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