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Re:Science, Now Under Scrutiny Itself by caseysoftware on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @09:29PM (#9736258)
But it is a reason to be skeptical. Further, in recent months and years, we've learned the peer review system is completely broken.

Until it's been reproduced and validated by a few outside - and hopefully disinterested - third parties, we shouldn't accept it as fact but as a theory that could be replaced.

Re:Science, Now Under Scrutiny Itself by andygates on Thursday June 18, 2015 @05:01AM (#9737473)
Peer review has never been a designation of fact, just "you must be this tall to enter the fighting pits."

Confusing peer review with fact is a public-perception problem, and a lot of that comes down to various antiscience groups whose work isn't even peer reviewed, let alone tested and challenged.