The rise and fall of peer review - by Adam Mastroianni

Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing

The rise and fall of peer review Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing Adam Mastroianni Dec 13, 2022 1,283 378 97 Share Article voiceover 0:00 -21:13 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Photo cred: my dad For the last 60 years or so, science has been running an experiment on itself. The experimental design wasn’t great; there was no randomization and no control group. Nobody was in charge, exactly, and nobody was really taking consistent measurements. And yet it was the most massive experiment ever run, and it includ

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