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185 – The Rise and Fall of Peer Review, with Adam Mastroianni

The Bayesian Conspiracy

CHAPTER

The Problem With Peer Review

I feel like there would be ways of solving this that don't require hiding the data for instance if you want to use data that someone else has previously published they get some attribution for it or something. This is all just trade in status which I think is part of the problem when you incentivize people to acquire status by publishing things. It's very weird that nobody in the chain is actually accountable for the contents of the paper no one is anything really on the line. Even if you publish a fraudulent paper maybe eventually you'll get fired but it's not like you get fined you won't go to jail, he says.

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