Comment by s1artibartfast
6 hours ago
Sure, but it is good that people actually adhere to that method if inquiry.
They are not perfect, but institutions like peer review or universities do provide a framework and incentives for quality.
6 hours ago
Sure, but it is good that people actually adhere to that method if inquiry.
They are not perfect, but institutions like peer review or universities do provide a framework and incentives for quality.
Eh. Peer review isn't central to science. The point of peer review is: you have a claim someone makes; if it's been peer-reviewed, you can build further research on it without having verify the claim yourself. If you're building technology directly, any result you use you're going to verify inherently, because it either works as advertised or your tech doesn't work. The external verification doesn't add that much in that case.