What Alexey Guzey thinks about peer review
Writer and founder of New Science, an organisation set up to build new institutions for the life sciences. He is best known for a line-by-line audit of the sleep researcher Matthew Walker's bestseller, and for a year of interviews with more than sixty working biologists about how their field actually works. He writes at guzey.com and rewrites himself in public.
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1 dated position, 2019, in their own words. Our reading of what Alexey Guzey has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingPeer review is one of the things genuinely wrong with academia, not a safeguard that mostly works.
Their wordsSpecific parts of academia that seem to be problematic: rigid, punishing for deviation, career progression; peer review; need to constantly fundraise for professors.
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