Ivan Oransky

If you add up the number of papers published every year, and then you multiply that times the two or three peer reviewers who are typically supposed to review those papers, and sometimes they go through multiple rounds, it's easily in the tens of millions of peer reviews as a unit.

If you add up the number of papers published every year, and then you multiply that times the two or three peer reviewers who are typically supposed to review those papers, and sometimes they go through multiple rounds, it's easily in the tens of millions of peer reviews as a unit.

If you add up the number of papers published every year, and then you multiply that times the two or three peer reviewers who are typically supposed to review those papers, and sometimes they go through multiple rounds, it's easily in the tens of millions of peer reviews as a unit.

And if each of those takes anywhere from four hours to eight hours of your life as an expert, which you don't really have because you've got to be teaching, you've got to be doing your own research, You come up with a number that cannot possibly be met by qualified people. Really, it can't. I mean, the math just doesn't work. And none of them are paid.

And if each of those takes anywhere from four hours to eight hours of your life as an expert, which you don't really have because you've got to be teaching, you've got to be doing your own research, You come up with a number that cannot possibly be met by qualified people. Really, it can't. I mean, the math just doesn't work. And none of them are paid.

And if each of those takes anywhere from four hours to eight hours of your life as an expert, which you don't really have because you've got to be teaching, you've got to be doing your own research, You come up with a number that cannot possibly be met by qualified people. Really, it can't. I mean, the math just doesn't work. And none of them are paid.

You are sort of expected to do this because somebody will peer review your paper at some other point, which sort of makes sense until you really pick it apart. Now, peer reviewers—so even the best of them, and by best, I mean people who really sit and take the time and probe what's going on in the paper and look at all the data— But you can't always look at the data.

You are sort of expected to do this because somebody will peer review your paper at some other point, which sort of makes sense until you really pick it apart. Now, peer reviewers—so even the best of them, and by best, I mean people who really sit and take the time and probe what's going on in the paper and look at all the data— But you can't always look at the data.

You are sort of expected to do this because somebody will peer review your paper at some other point, which sort of makes sense until you really pick it apart. Now, peer reviewers—so even the best of them, and by best, I mean people who really sit and take the time and probe what's going on in the paper and look at all the data— But you can't always look at the data.

In fact, most of the time, you can't look at the raw data, even if you had time, because the authors don't make it available. So, peer review, it's become really peer review light, and maybe not even that, at the vast majority of journals. So, it's no longer surprising that so much gets through the system that shouldn't.

In fact, most of the time, you can't look at the raw data, even if you had time, because the authors don't make it available. So, peer review, it's become really peer review light, and maybe not even that, at the vast majority of journals. So, it's no longer surprising that so much gets through the system that shouldn't.

In fact, most of the time, you can't look at the raw data, even if you had time, because the authors don't make it available. So, peer review, it's become really peer review light, and maybe not even that, at the vast majority of journals. So, it's no longer surprising that so much gets through the system that shouldn't.

We have been conditioned. And in fact, because of our own attention economy, we end up covering studies overall else when it comes to science and medicine. I like to think that's changing a little bit. I hope it is. But we cover individual studies and we cover the studies that sound the most interesting or that have the biggest effect size and things like that.

We have been conditioned. And in fact, because of our own attention economy, we end up covering studies overall else when it comes to science and medicine. I like to think that's changing a little bit. I hope it is. But we cover individual studies and we cover the studies that sound the most interesting or that have the biggest effect size and things like that.

We have been conditioned. And in fact, because of our own attention economy, we end up covering studies overall else when it comes to science and medicine. I like to think that's changing a little bit. I hope it is. But we cover individual studies and we cover the studies that sound the most interesting or that have the biggest effect size and things like that.

You know, you wear red, you must be angry, or if it says that this is definitely a cure for cancer.

You know, you wear red, you must be angry, or if it says that this is definitely a cure for cancer.

You know, you wear red, you must be angry, or if it says that this is definitely a cure for cancer.