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Re:Peer review: the end of an error? by improbable22 on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @03:43PM (#16641592)
A point not mentioned in the article is that this formal peer review system is itself quite young. I think that sending every paper out to several reviewers only became the default once we had xerox machines -- 1960s? We did a lot of serious science before that.

A bit earlier, the famous anecdote is about Einstein's offence that the Phys Rev editor would dare to send his paper for review at all -- apparently this would not have happened at a German journal of that era: http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2005/09/16/einstein...

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Re:Peer review: the end of an error? by noobermin on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @06:28PM (#16643007)
If anything, that works as a great defense of peer review given Einstein was wrong.
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Re:Peer review: the end of an error? by gophile on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @11:13PM (#16645380)
Einstein was right about some things and wrong about some things. Which work of Einstein are you referring to when you imply that a peer review could have detected the error in his work?
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Re:Peer review: the end of an error? by noobermin on Thursday March 22, 2018 @05:28AM (#16647104)
The story in the linked blogpost.
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