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Wordsnail's avatar

More like an inward coil, decreasing in scholarship and scientific cross section.

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Gaye's avatar

If I hear someone scream peer review one more time... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1420798/

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kat100's avatar

Peer review is more akin to a Mutual Admiration Society.

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Paulette Altmaier's avatar

Someone pithily called this "idea laundering." I thought that was brilliant!

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Don Wolt's avatar

Excellent. I'd suggest there's one more segment in here that might be described something like this: Seek funding to study the problem, which is then found to be worse than imagined and warranting of more research.

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