The Game of Peer-Review

As the saying goes: When the ancients abolished Gladiatorial games, they introduced Academia.

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Recent years have exposed those we are expected to refer to as our de factor authority on any endeavor of scientific import. The so-called ‘experts.’

‘Expert’ is a construct. It refers to a person with a set of characteristics.

The Expert is:

• well-educated, preferably from the Ivy League

• eloquent, or at least, well-r…