The Unintended Consequences of Science

"We're going to kill ourselves because of stupidity," he says. "What is science? People coming out of a university with a master's degree or a PhD, you take them into the field and they literally don't believe anything unless there's a peer-reviewed paper." 'If a paper is peer-reviewed, it means everybody thought the same, therefore they approved it,' Savori adds.'An unintended consequence is that when new knowledge emerges, new scientific insights, they can never ever be peer-reviewed.'