Does rice milk or milk from grain-fed cows emit less methane?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Because science would still exist without peer review or p-values (as it did for thousands of years). Peer review and p-values would not exist without science.

The core of science is investigation, not publishing.

Boru

Well, I think p-values are the core of modern science. You are right that, for most of the time science has existed, statistics was not advanced enough to allow the calculation of p-values in most cases. That slowed down the progress of science a lot (If Semmelweis was able to calculate the p-values, Levy would not be able to suggest that his observations are a coincidence). But, like I've said, I think it's the core of modern science.

I am not sure how you think peer review did not exist before modern times. You don't think scientists have always been asking other experts "Hey, is this anything?" before publishing something?

I didn’t say that peer review didn’t exist before modern times. I said science got along for thousands of year without it.

Boru