Correct. Peer review entered only recently & devitalized science. There is now a *massive* campaign by people who use it to their advantage to rewrite scientific history as if it has always been there as part of the scientific method. This is modern propaganda. A cult. Madness.https://twitter.com/SoDeep14/status/1220762585550725127 …
Historians suggest the consecration of universal peer review was a way to justify funding to governments and avoid scrutiny from Congress. You suggest scientists don't know this because it's a way to protect against upstarts, but that is not ahttps://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/09/26/the-rise-of-peer-review-melinda-baldwin-on-the-history-of-refereeing-at-scientific-journals-and-funding-bodies/ …