Are You Saying That From Now On, Your Research Will Not Be Submitted to an Academic Journal?

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"I have one more paper in the pipeline that's under review right now," he says. "My intention after that paper comes out is to never submit a paper to a scientific journal again" He adds, "If you don't have that freedom, this life isn't worth it." The Obama West thing is a high-akian lever and emerging order I think if more people felt the way you did other institutions norms would emerge on the bottom up.

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.