Peer review’s simply a sham, reversing the economic backslide and other commentary

Libertarian: Peer Review's Simply a Sham "Scientific research is in crisis," with 5,000 papers retracted a year — and that's "a tiny fraction of how many should be," laments Matt Ridley at The Spectator. "High-profile papers on stem cells, superconductivity, psychological priming, drug efficacy, and ocean-heat content have been retracted." The "real scandal," though, "is not the criminal frauds," the "data dredging and fire-hose publishing, but the gate-keeping, groupthink, and bias that politicizes some fields of science, turning it into the dogma known as 'the science.' The pandemic provided a glimpse of just how far senior scientists will go to…