Editing Peer Review (section)

== Quotes ==

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"The pressure for conformity is enormous. I have experienced it in editors’ rejection of submitted papers, based on venomous criticism of anonymous referees. The replacement of impartial reviewing by censorship will be the death of science."   — Julian Schwinger
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"Also, funding by peer review results in group-think and whole scientific fields floating off in a self-perpetuating irreality bubble for decades. Randomness will fund mavericks, mostly crackpots, but some may blow up established dysfunctional disciplines."   — [https://twitter.com/i/status/1128389263526060032 David Chapman]
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"A technical argument by a trusted author, which is hard
to check and looks similar to arguments known to be
correct, is hardly ever checked in detail."   — [https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2014/voevodsky-origins Vladimir Voevodsky]
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"Research by salaried laborers is becoming a rent-seeking citation ring consisting of large scale imitative rituals, with a decreasing number of results, an increasing cluelessness of participants, and a multiplication of useless rules."   — [https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1009417068926722048 Nassim Nicholas Taleb]
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