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cliffelam · 4460 days ago · link · · parent · post: CERN’s Higgs boson discovery passes peer review, becomes actual science.
It's not that simple, and peer review is, like any human institution, full of politics and humbuggery. It's possibly the best process we know, but don't invest it with special powers. I think the peer review process probably works best in the so-called hard sciences, but it's certainly let some stinkers through there as well. -XC