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Drawn from what José Luis Ricón said
peer review How science checks itself, and the case that the checking mostly does not work.
metascience Research about research: whether published findings hold up, and what makes a field more or less reliable.
I have reviewed before the effectiveness of peer review at figuring out "what's good" in the context of grant awards, finding that peer review as currently practiced does substantially better than chance at predicting future impact, especially for the most impactful of the papers; but at the same time is is far from perfect, leaving plenty of variance unexplained.
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I hold this tooShared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.