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Confirmation Bias is Hilarious But Expensive

The Political Orphanage

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Academia's Circle Jerk: A Look into the Peer Review Process

Peter Bogosian and his colleagues criticized academia for creating confirmation bias through peer review in their agreement studies/nThey submitted ridiculous papers on rape culture at dog parks, Hooters customers, and self-penetration with dildos to prove their point/nThe papers made it deep into the review process, exposing flaws in academia's peer review system

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