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RobertMaxwell’s dark legacy of peer review: time to stop a system that tramples?www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/05/robert-maxwells-dark-legacy-of-peer-review-time-to-stop-a-system-that-tramples-on-intellectual-freedoms/
120 sats \ 3 comments \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 13 Nov 2024 science
The implications are stark. Truth and intellectual honesty can be a casualty and it is easy to imagine the effects on applied subjects such as medicine, engineering, physics and meteorology as well as on the humanities for example history, culture and literature. The health and vibrancy of our world has been suffocated by this peer-reviewed system.
Is this the reason science and everything else is at a stand-still?
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20 sats \ 2 replies \ @south_korea_ln 13 Nov 2024
I'll come back to this very interesting piece later when I have more time. In the meanwhile, i am a bit puzzled by her suggestion for an alternative in the conclusion:
With the huge number of instances of fine research being marginalised and poor research winning out, is it not time to admit that peer review, the brainchild of Robert Maxwell, should finally be laid to rest? The alternative lies waiting in the wings – a journal with a single trusted editor, famed for his or her impartiality and genuine concern to advance humanity in the direction of truth-seeking.
(emphasis mine)
How does one chose who qualifies as a single trusted editor?
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117 sats \ 1 reply \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 13 Nov 2024
I don’t think one does qualify as a “single trusted editor”. The alternative may be something like PubMed for the other sciences. Where you can put out your findings, apparently without editing, and people can look at it themselves, using their own judgment. Then they can either try to duplicate the results or not, as they choose. This way we don’t have to wait for the old school to all die out before paradigm change.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 13 Nov 2024
Other sciences have arXiv...
arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for nearly 2.4 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv.
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