Mike Taylor on Nostr: "Making peer review harsher would also exacerbate the worst problem of all: just ...

"Making peer review harsher would also exacerbate the worst problem of all: just knowing that your ideas won’t count for anything unless peer reviewers like them makes you worse at thinking. It’s like being a teenager again: before you do anything, you ask yourself, “BUT WILL PEOPLE THINK I’M COOL?”"
— Adam Mastroianni (nprofile…ulpj) at https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review