The Upper Has No Clothes

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"I wrote it because I felt like it was true and I didn't see anyone else see it," he says. "It's the most popular thing that I've written, which goes to show you have no idea." The essay has been viewed by more than 215,000 people on YouTube. It also received a lot of pushback from professors who said they were concerned about his ability to mentor undergraduates.

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.