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Boojatta

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5. How much peer review are we talking about?
Sat Jan 7, 2012, 10:16 PM
Jan 2012

Your criterion seems to make the meaning of the concept "science" depend on sociological events, but the sociological events depend upon specific people.

If it takes a hundred years after a paper is first distributed to reviewers before the paper can achieve peer-reviewed status, and if the reviewers belong to a diverse spectrum of cultures, philosophies, ideologies, political views, etc, then your criterion might be okay.

However, what if a paper simply accords with a short-lived fad that lasts for a couple of years, or appeals to the biases of some narrow dogma or ideology (such as Behaviorism, which had institutional influence for more than a few years)?

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