"This is the most cynical bunch of nonsense I've ever heard," he says. "I take my responsibilities over a free extremely seriously." The system doesn't work very well, certainly at catching major errors,. He adds that it's hard to find 'the dog that didn't bark', but fraudulent papers are always caught after publication.
Psychologist Adam Mastroianni says peer review has failed. Papers with major errors make it through the process. The ones without errors often fail to replicate. One approach to improve the process is better incentives. But Mastroianni argues that peer review isn't fixable. It's a failed experiment. Listen as he makes the case to EconTalk host Russ Roberts for a new approach to science and academic research.