Laziness makes religion inevitable: criticizing proxy metrics in science
RexDouglass · x · 2026-08-17
The author criticizes the current scientific ecosystem for being lazy, relying on proxy metrics like peer review and citations instead of carefully reading papers to understand the underlying substance.
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