The Rise and Fall of Peer Review

improv comedy is the playful working with other people to build something cool and get the vibes aligned thing going rather than just making jokes. The idea that whenever you have something to tell people about the science you've done, you are going to send it to a peer review journal is only something that's been true from somewhere in the 60s or 70s. Einstein only ever had one paper peer reviewed and he was surprised that it happened because he was like I didn't tell you that you could send this to someone else before you published it. And so that's 115 years ago. But back then for it to be surprising that someone would review your paper before publishing it says a lot about how