Examining Peer Review (1/6)

Peer review was established to ensure quality and accuracy of academic research and publications. As one university library tells students, "Peer review ensures that an article—and therefore the journal and the scholarship of the discipline as a whole—maintains a high standard of quality, accuracy, and academic integrity. When you consult peer-reviewed sources, you are tapping into a wealth of established, verified knowledge."

Does this mean non-peer reviewed materials have no value? What happens if academics refuse to peer review? Are they the only arbiters of quality and accuracy?

Few people outside of academia know what it is or how it operates. Like most ideas and methods, peer review has evolved from its original purpose in ways that academics never anticipated -- for example, the scandals involving climate science and the perversion of scientific and academic method. While peer review has mostly been thought of as the way ideas get their credibility, in fact, peer review has become an incestuous system that often invites corruption and territoriality so that most of the realm of new discoveries can't make their way to the world. The peer review process is often antithetical to innovation and perpetuates prevailing knowledge. We need a new and better process and paradigm because of the hugely important implications for the betterment of all of society.
Gavin Menzies, the author of 1421 and 1434 and Dr. Tim Ball, a climatologist, teacher, and writer from Canada, join us to lay out what we need to know about peer review to get us thinking about other ways of empowering discoveries throughout the modern world.

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[centurion180ad]

Critical to this point; Professor Antal Fekete is unable to have anyone review his diligence, no university will hire for or include his economic curricula, and no Tax Free Foundation which controls sabbatical will place him with power to expand his knowledge professionally. In this case peer review acts as CENSORSHIP & MONOPOLY.

[ItsRainmakingTime]

@centurion180ad I interviewed Antal many months ago. Have a listen to that interview. He is awesome.

[aplatman]

Great show, great interview revealing the lack of honesty in the academic world. How come only 83 views so far? This lady asks great questions and the people get to say their peace. Thanks.

[ItsRainmakingTime]

@aplatman Thank you for listening. I use a MAC and there is a software program I think called Tube Blaster which automates You Tube subscriptions and friends but it is not set up for MACs yet. It is only available in Windows computers. If you have a windows computer and you want to help us spread the word, you can automate this segment for us and it would make a world of difference. If you can let people know about this on You Tube, we would appreciate this very much. Kind Regards, Kim

[SuperTigerNo1]

asians did , they ccrossed the bering strait landbridge in the ice age and reached america :)

[centurion180ad]

@ItsRainmakingTime I listened to that interview, weeks ago. Thank you for the heads up. He has published his lecture notes on Gold Standard, and I've digested that too!

[aplatman]

@ItsRainmakingTime Hi Kim - i just emailed you through timing at rainmaking with the subject heading of YouTube Reply. not enough characters here to say what i felt like saying. i have now watched three of your shows. i think you are doing a good thing here. c'ya