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95 | Liam Kofi Bright on Knowledge, Truth, and Science

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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We Should Get Rid of Pre-Publication Peer Review

In many fields the way new ideas get taken up is sort of not privately but in relatively small groups a scientist or group of scientists produce a manuscript. The journal will have an editorial board some editors they say and reviewers and the editor will send it to reviewers who then decide whether or not their paper should be published. In physics and maths that is how things done. But just putting up on some kind of publicly accessible space and having going directly to the stage where the community are able to assess it as a whole could do more good for us, he says.

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