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Iain McGilchrist: We are in a fully deluded world

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers

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The Problem With Peer Review

Public science is run by administrators and they have various bees in their bonnet that we should all do this. And usually when you come to examine the science, it's much more complicated than that or often doesn't support the position at all. There are journals that will publish for a fee and a lot of them now have come into being, they call predatory journals. One of the problems for many scientists is finding anyone who's willing to publish what they've done. You'd be very credulous to believe that everything that you read is said to be science is science. But this is a problem of living. I'm just saying that science is not immune from all the problems that go with

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