kind of a brutal own of Science that they never got around to testing the efficacy of peer reviewhttps://twitter.com/firstthingsmag/status/1074394984990691328 …
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peer review has many tacit functions, expect an important one is the suppression of Heresy usually this is done for the benefit of incumbent career scientists, sometimes for the advantage of an entire field, perhaps other times with the aim of maintaining a broader status quo
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anyway Kuhn was right and Science is socially constructed and this probably constrains science at several levels; and this has always been true, but the postwar institutionalization of Science has probably tightened these constraints
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