Peer Review's Broken System and the Myth of Scientific Progress
This is my favourite blog article of the year. Adam Mastroianni is an academic who is unhappy with peer review. Deeply, deeply unhappy. He points out the insanity of how many articles get published every year, how opaque and undecipherable the language of academic writing is, how often fradulent papers get past peer reviews and concludes that peer review is irredeemably broken. And how low or productivity is anyway writing all these papers and reviewing them too. He also has a really punchy style and says things like: