Peer Review is Not Scientific

How a process designed to ensure scientific rigor is tainted by randomness, bias, and arbitrary delays.

Devon Price
15 min readJun 18, 2018

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A mess of papers. Image by Christa Dodoo, edited by author in Pixlr.

In my last essay, I discussed the ways in which the academic publishing process is unnecessarily slow, labor-intensive, and exploitative of researchers who are not paid for the research and writing they devote years of their lives to

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Devon Price

He/Him or It/Its. Social Psychologist & Author of LAZINESS DOES NOT EXIST and UNMASKING AUTISM. Links to buy: https://linktr.ee/drdevonprice