Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ The peer review drugs don’t work

Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

This is an interesting way to put it: "If peer review was a drug it would never be allowed onto the market." I'm not a great Cochrane Report supporter but I think they're right here. As the article says, peer review " it is ineffective, largely a lottery, anti-innovatory, slow, expensive, wasteful of scientific time, inefficient, easily abused, prone to bias, unable to detect fraud and irrelevant."

Today: 3 Total: 102 [Direct link] [Share]

Image from the website
View full size


Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
stephen@downes.ca

Copyright 2024
Last Updated: Nov 22, 2024 04:57 a.m.

Canadian Flag Creative Commons License.

Force:yes