On science and peer review

    Steve Smoot kindly sent me this note:   Thought you’d appreciate this.   http://www.vox.com/2015/5/13/8591837/...   That science can fail, however, shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. It’s a human construct, after all. And if we simply accepted that science often works imperfectly, we’d be better off. We’d stop considering science a collection [Read More...]