🗑️ 🧵 History of peer review
Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 19:38:03 UTC No. 16459943
Nature published a fairly funny history of peer review
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41
>For a 1950 paper that discussed ‘anisotropic elastic continuum’ by mathematician James Oldroyd, geophysicist Harold Jeffreys wrote: “Knowing the author, I have confidence that the analysis is correct.”
>Physicist Shelford Bidwell didn’t mince his words about the author of a 1900 article on ‘colour sense’. Bidwell had lent apparatus to author Frederick Edridge-Green, but writes: “I was prepared to find that his new paper was rubbish; and it turned out to be rubbish of so rank a character that no competent person could possibly take any other view of it.”
>At least one referee, physicist George Burch, was so concerned that rejecting a paper might give the impression of bias that he recommended publication in 1901 even though he was not convinced by the results and couldn’t replicate them.
🗑️ Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 19:48:54 UTC No. 16459959
>>16459943
I don't understand why conservatards are so obsessed with vaccines. They aren't the most costly, deadly or lobbied-for instance of bad medicine.
🗑️ Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 20:07:23 UTC No. 16459974
why do we need /pol/ to shitpost on /sci/ again?
Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 20:09:25 UTC No. 16459976
>>16459959
Has to be some kind of psyop.
>>16459974
Discussing peer review isn't politically incorrect.
🗑️ Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 20:17:52 UTC No. 16459986
Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 22:46:00 UTC No. 16460146
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🗑️ Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 22:48:14 UTC No. 16460154
>ben garrison /pol/ cartoon
>mods delete comment about its /pol/
kek
its still /pol/.
Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 23:38:26 UTC No. 16460227
>>16459943
leeches actually work lol
Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 23:42:36 UTC No. 16460233
>>16459943
But leeches work, so do maggots when used correctly.
Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 23:52:46 UTC No. 16460240
>>16460227
>>16460233
Leeches work. So do vaccines.
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Nov 2024 00:42:42 UTC No. 16460312
>>16460240
trvth nvke, based, etc
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Nov 2024 01:18:12 UTC No. 16460355
>>16459943
The reason peer review is a modern phenomenon is because in a high trust society there's no need for it. You can take people at their word that the experiment was performed and the results are faithfully reported.
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Nov 2024 01:38:06 UTC No. 16460377
>>16460154
It's a science cartoon.
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Nov 2024 01:49:16 UTC No. 16460394
Iron and other heavy metals collect in the blood, and donating blood (for healthy people) is recommended for that reason. And as >>16460233 says leeches and maggots do well at cleaning out necrotic tissue.
>>16460240
Also true.
Although I don't recommend that OP donate blood iykwim.
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Nov 2024 08:11:44 UTC No. 16460673
>>16459943
>Peer review is broken.
>You see, it's not that peer review today is broken which is pretty much well-known. But we've got examples from the early 20th century. Luckily we don't live in this time anymore. Aren't I right? *Goofey laughter sound*.
Dave at Sun, 3 Nov 2024 08:39:13 UTC No. 16460684
>>16460227
>leeches actually work lol
the vaccines work too you imbecile
Go back to church, buddy
It's time to praise the Jewish desert god
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Nov 2024 17:42:17 UTC No. 16461151
>>16460355
Even in a high trust society people can make mistakes in their analysis or overlook things.
Most of the review I've received from peer reviewers on my own publications has been genuinely constructive criticism or questions about my analysis methods.
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Nov 2024 22:52:29 UTC No. 16461498
>>16459943
Yes, the science is a pseud sphere. They are flocking to it because they see it as an opportunity to shut down political dissent. Unfortunately for them, the gig is up and everyone knows Robert Maxell staged the whole thing - he was a mossad agent and father of pedophile groomer Ghislaine Maxwell.
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Nov 2024 23:03:06 UTC No. 16461504
>>16460154
>ban evasion
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 06:37:51 UTC No. 16461853
>>16460240
>>16460684
hope you got your covid, flu, pneumonia, rsv vaccines this year.
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 09:09:00 UTC No. 16461918
Leaches and blood letting were benificial at the time. Most people had excessive iron due to the cooking tools & utenciels. One of the modern treatments for that problem is donating blood.
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 09:13:53 UTC No. 16461919
>>16461853
>hope you got your covid, flu, pneumonia, rsv vaccines this year.
As far as vaccines go, they suck. In the past one of the polio vaccines was recalled as it caused cancer due to SV40 inclusions (one of the problems with pfizer's covid vaccine). And flu shots, there was a study some hears ago that they are only effecive if you have never had one before, after you're first then the immune system doesn't know what antigen to produce resulting in a higher likilyhood of getting the flu. We've seen this all before, but regulators are asleep at the wheel.
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 10:40:10 UTC No. 16461951
>>16461853
Whys this guy sayin flu four times
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 10:55:35 UTC No. 16461952
>>16461951
>Whys this guy sayin flu four times
Kek
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 20:04:52 UTC No. 16462613
peer review more like queer review amirite
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Nov 2024 18:43:07 UTC No. 16463905
>The notion that peer review should preserve the quality of the scientific record is a modern viewpoint.
>The Royal Society archive demonstrates another, less noble, reason to use referees: to help journals control costs. Starting in the late nineteenth century, reviewers were asked to weigh up the soaring price of printing and were asked “are portions of the paper, or any illustrations, redundant?”
The notion that peer review should preserve the quality of the scientific record is an inevitable offshoot of the scientists' egotism.
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Nov 2024 22:46:09 UTC No. 16464191
>>16463905
science by consensus only means that the majority of midwits will always gang up to crush the ideas of the rare visionary geniuses
its worth noting that the article says that peer review became formalized around 1970 because thats also around when science became stagnant