Adam Mastroianni on Peer Review and the Academic Kitchen

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🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Psychologist Adam Mastroianni says peer review has failed. Papers with major errors make it through the process. The ones without errors often fail to replicate. One approach to improve the process is better incentives. But Mastroianni argues that peer review isn't fixable. It's a failed experiment. Listen as he makes the case to EconTalk host Russ Roberts for a new approach to science and academic research.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:07.8	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:12.7	Institution.
0:13.7	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.4	You'll also find our archives, but every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.8	Today is January 17th, 2023, and my guest is psychologist Adam Mastriani.
0:44.2	He is a postdoc research scholar at Columbia University's Business School.
0:48.6	His substack newsletter is experimental history.
0:52.1	Adam Wilkowdy, contact.
0:53.6	Thanks so much for having me.
0:55.4	Our topic for today, Adam, is a shocking and exhilarating essay that you wrote on peer
1:00.1	review.
1:01.4	It is not often that peer review and exhilarating appear in the same sentence, but I love your
1:07.2	piece.
1:08.2	It blew my mind.
1:09.2	For reasons I think will become clear as we talk.
1:11.6	Let's start with the idea behind peer review.
1:15.6	What's the, you know, if you ask normal people, people not like you and me who are what
1:22.0	I would call believers in the system.
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