Debate on cross-disciplinary judgment in academic peer review
sibinmohan · x · 2026-08-21
In a reply, the author argues that field experts have the ability to judge the validity of academic content, contrasting it with non-experts (like social scientists without CS training) picking random sentences from papers and dismissing them.
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