Get the Word Out: Preprints, Peer-Review, and It's Discontents

It's a way for this author to mention some of his publications, also.

The Frontier Psychiatrists is not remotely a peer-reviewed publication in that it’s written on the daily and only peer-reviewed by my readers¹ after it’s out the door.

Part of the reason I write in this format is that my output in the academic literature is slower than I am capable of otherwise. Mostly because writing things for academic journals means I have to write a way that's boring and not funny, and I'm not writing things that are not a little bit funny. And so, as someone with ADHD, I avoid them².

The last photo I took of my dad, with a pinhole camera.

There is some excellent writing from

Adam Mastroianni

on the topic of peer review in academic literature and it’s failure”

For the last 60 years or so, science has been running an experiment on itself. The experimental design wasn’t great; there was no randomization and no control group. Nobody was in charge, exactly, and nobody was really taking consistent measurements. And yet it was the most massive experiment ever run, and it included every scie…