If you follow the papers of roland benabou on collective delusion, group think, one conclusion is thare there should be ex-ante measures to protect dissenters. like the free speech in US.
peer review is like democracy, without a constitution to block dangerous votes, it became dictatorship of majority, or of what the majority think of what is the majority (everybody agree it is stupid but don' wan't to look heretic)... one old technic was to have various independent island of science, connected loosely with books, but not with standards of quality, official theories, religions... in ana article some said that europe technology explosion was parly because of the wars and politic diversity, compared to more advanced but too centralized china. 2012/7/4 Daniel Rocha <[email protected]> > I was sarcastic... > > > 2012/7/4 Peter Gluck <[email protected]> > >> The peer review system is as marriage or democracy- creates many problems >> but nothing better was invented yet. >> Peter >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Daniel Rocha <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Without the peer review system, there wouldn't be fake papers. >>> >>> 2012/7/4 Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> >>> >>>> So much for the peer-review system. See: >>>> >>>> >>>> slatest.slate.com/posts/2012/07/03/japanese_anesthesiologist_clinches_world_record_for_retractions_publishing_172_fabricated_papers.html >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Daniel Rocha - RJ >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Dr. Peter Gluck >> Cluj, Romania >> http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com >> >> > > > -- > Daniel Rocha - RJ > [email protected] > >
