(April 16, 2016 at 3:21 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: I understand the value in peer review, but also I am aware of it's flaws. I don't think that acceptance by a peer review publication makes something scientific or not. [...] I don't think that peer review is magic pixie dust, where acceptance means that all of the sudden science begins.
I concur! Nor did I think or imply otherwise.
The point was that the error-correction mechanism exists for a good reason.
Those things which were changed/withdrawn even after passing Peer Review (based on the best knowledge at the time) are because others who looked at the works found better explanations. That's why all knowledge in science, and all the theoretical models we build, are tentative explanations and subject to being altered or changed with better information. That's the primary strength of the Scientific Method.
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