Scholar Critiques Peer Review: Citations Are Superstition
RexDouglass · x · 2026-08-17
The tweet argues that empirical work is extremely difficult and costly to verify, leading many to rely on proxies like peer review and citations. The author deems this 'superstition,' noting that guessing value from metadata requires even more information than just consuming the artifact itself.
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