(April 17, 2023 at 12:46 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote:(April 17, 2023 at 12:29 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 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
What do you mean science was without it?
I mean that the Mesopotamians, Babylonians, Chinese, Egyptians, and various Paleolithic people were able to conduct scientific investigations without a peer review process. Peer review in the modern sense only dates from about the 17th century (although if we stretch the definition a bit, a case could be made for the 9th).
Boru
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