I’ve been looking at some series that are based on peer-reviewed science like “Missing Links” by Gregg Braden, and I’ve been reading that recent studies use peer-reviewed science, but it’s not clear to me what it really is. If someone could ELI5, I would appreciate it.
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Others have explained what peer review is. Although it’s a whole load better than nothing it’s not perfect. Many peer reviewed and published papers describe work that turns out not to be reproducible by others; and perversely unreproducible results get cited more than reproducible ones.
In a way it’s not surprising. Papers making exciting and interesting claims are more likely to cited … but they’re also more likely to be wrong and hence not reproducible.
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