Perspicuo
Veteran Member
Let's stop pretending peer review works
http://www.vox.com/2015/12/7/9865086/peer-review-science-problems
Peer review is "often insulting, usually ignorant, occasionally foolish, and frequently wrong".
http://www.vox.com/2015/12/7/9865086/peer-review-science-problems
The researchers then altered the names and university affiliations on the journal manuscripts and resubmitted the papers to the same journal. In theory, these papers should have been high quality — they'd already made it into these prestigious publications. If the process worked well, the studies that were published the first time would be approved for publication again the second time around.
What Peters and Ceci found was surprising. Nearly 90 percent of the peer reviewers who looked at the resubmitted articles recommended against publication this time. In many cases, they said the articles had "serious methodological flaws."
Peer review is "often insulting, usually ignorant, occasionally foolish, and frequently wrong".