Is It Accepted?

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It takes a very long time to get your paper published. If you can, if there's only a year in between when you first submit the paper and when it comes out, you're doing pretty good. Other places, it could take years. And this is part of why I think so many people I know come to despise the things that they publish by the time that they get published.

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.