🧵 View Thread
🧵 Thread (4 tweets)
kind of a brutal own of Science that they never got around to testing the efficacy of peer review https://t.co/zAVXhjfD2d
has me thinking though i wonder if as time passes more and more of the things that could be Understood are contextual infohazards like certain things have to be True for societies of different granularities to function in their extant form
peer review has many tacit functions, expect an important one is the suppression of Heresy usually this is done for the benefit of incumbent career scientists, sometimes for the advantage of an entire field, perhaps other times with the aim of maintaining a broader status quo
anyway Kuhn was right and Science is socially constructed and this probably constrains science at several levels; and this has always been true, but the postwar institutionalization of Science has probably tightened these constraints