The Importance of Peer Review in Science

Are we going to be leading a life in our here and now that would allow a kind of escapist lifestyle, he asks. In 1953, when the double helix was elucidated by Watson and Crick, they submitted it to Nature but it was never peer-reviewed. A lot of the work that we do in science has been incredibly imaginative,. And you might even say it's been irresponsible until it comes into final form and can be reconciled with experiment.