How to Write a Paper That Passes Peer Review

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In order to succeed at that game, I inevitably have to say something that I think isn't true or that I don't believe in. So I spent much of the past year writing long responses to reviewers and reading their long responses to me. But why can't you do that via the peer review process? Why not just submit papers that you think are true? And why is playing the journal game of violation of your philosophical values?

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.