Adam Mastroianni on Peer Review and the Academic KitchenPsychologist 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.
Mastroianni's article that they discuss:
The rise and fall of peer reviewWhy the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing
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