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AMA | December 2022

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

CHAPTER

The Peer Review System Is Not Trying to Get to Objective Truth

The volume inside in the context of relativity is going to depend on how you divide spacetime up into space and time. The peer review system, like many other things, is a labor-saving device. It gives you a little bit more credence that the result is reliable and respectable. But it is not a substitute for your actual judgment.

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