Tech Firms Hire 'Red Teams.' Scientists Should, Too
Another botched peer review—this one involving a controversial study of police killings—shows how devil's advocates could improve the scientific process.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.When it comes to the rigor of peer-reviewed studies, perhaps there's a difference between the "soft" and "hard" sciences?
p-nullifidian
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July 19, 2020
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There have long been devil’s advocates, or “red individuals” and red teams, in cosmology.
What hampers their work?
Their own personal money and that of donors has funded their work, while many billions of taxpayer dollars or euros have for sixty years funded the untested or untestable work they have been examining.
You can read their work at www.newtoeu.com in the free PDF file you can download and you can read or view it at www.thunderbolts.info
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