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At the centre Sixty years of peer review produced no evidence that it made science better, and the literature it produced is in a bad state. Holds AMAdam Mastroianni Read this korrent →

• Same subject: peer review Fraudulent papers pass peer review routinely, which is direct evidence that peer review does not do the job it is supposed to do. Holds AMAdam Mastroianni
• Same subject: peer review History has a reproducibility problem worse than science’s replication crisis, because hardly anyone ever goes back to the sources to check what a historian claimed they say. Holds AHAnton Howes
• Same subject: peer review Needing a reviewer's approval before an idea counts for anything makes scientists worse at thinking, and costs the field its most unusual ideas. Holds AMAdam Mastroianni
• Same subject: peer review Peer review is one of the things genuinely wrong with academia, not a safeguard that mostly works. Holds AGAlexey GuzeyAMAdam Mastroianni
• Same subject: peer review Pre-grant peer review predicts which research will have impact substantially better than chance does. Holds JRJosé Luis Ricón
• Same subject: peer review Published effect sizes shrink as more studies are done, and that decline is what the replication crisis is made of. Holds SRStuart Ritchie
• Same subject: peer review Scientists say they take peer review seriously, but what they actually do shows they do not think it matters. Holds AMAdam Mastroianni
• Same subject: peer review The cost of grant peer review is dominated by the time researchers spend writing applications, not by the reviewing itself. Holds JRJosé Luis Ricón