"It is amazing to me that most people believe that more information is better," he says. "I find this really pleasant because it got a place to what I like to think about the world and the reliability of much empirical work" He thinks humanity will continue to produce science and uncover knowledge, and we will look ignorant very soon.
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.