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Needing a reviewer's approval before an idea counts for anything makes scientists worse at thinking, and costs the field its most unusual ideas.

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peer review How science checks itself, and the case that the checking mostly does not work.

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  1. Adam Mastroianni

    Experimental psychologist with a PhD from Harvard

    Making peer review harsher would also exacerbate the worst problem of all: just knowing that your ideas won’t count for anything unless peer reviewers like them makes you worse at thinking.

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