Researcher blasts peer review: reviewers never check data or code, just ask for robustness checks
RexDouglass · x · 2026-10-23
Quantitative researcher RexDouglass argues peer review was never great: reviewers wouldn't look at actual data or code "if their life depended on it," yet endlessly produced mindless framing and robustness-check questions. He adds that the paper-writing stage remains essentially unchanged, implying the real bottleneck is substantive verification of results, not writing productivity.
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