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It seems kind of obvious that peer review is going to reward peer think, peer citation, and academic incremental advance. Obviously that's not how innovation works.

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the system, as flawed as it is, is very effective for its purpose. see eg "success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration". on a darker side, the purpose is not to be fair to any particular individual, or even to be conducive to human flourishing at large.

yes - maybe a good filter for future academic success, which seems to be a game unto itself

academia is not about innovation, it should be trying to tend to the big self-referential kaleidoscope of knowledge.

mostly it should try to do it through falsifying things, of course groupthing is seldom effective at that.

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