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🔬 The Rise and Fall of Peer Review
Adam Mastroianni takes a hard look at peer review — the backbone of how science claims to know what's true — and argues that after sixty years it has largely failed its own experiment: missing errors and fraud, slowing progress, pressuring scientists to play safe. But he invites us to trea
Adam Mastroianni takes a hard look at peer review — the backbone of how science claims to know what's true — and argues that after sixty years it has largely failed its own experiment: missing errors and fraud, slowing progress, pressuring scientists to play safe. But he invites us to treat the failure as a gift: instead of clinging to peer review as a perfect gatekeeper, we can embrace science as an open, evolving conversation that thrives on transparency, honest mistakes and collective curiosity.
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