Tim Ball, a climatologist, teacher, and writer from Canada, lay out what we need to know about peer review to think of other ways of empowering discovery in the modern world. We need a new and better process and paradigm because of the implications for the betterment of all of society. The peer review process is often antithetical to innovation and perpetuates prevailing knowledge. While peer review has mostly been thought of as the way ideas get their credibility, in fact, peer review has become an incestuous system that often invites corruption and territoriality so that most of the realm of new discoveries can’t make their way to the world. Like most ideas and methods, peer review has evolved from its original purpose in ways that academics never anticipated – for example, the scandals involving climate science and the perversion of scientific and academic method. Few people outside of academia know what peer review is or how it operates.
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