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Originally Posted by Nesti
That's actually quite a valid point.
Steven, seriously mate, you have to admit that there is a biased pro-science viewpoint associated with peer review?!
Where's the independence? Should there be another, higher, level of review?
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There is, at least for medicine. It's called Cochrane reviews, and it's an independent group who take important medical issues like 'is taking aspirin everyday good' or 'does chiropractic work' and do meta-reviews of all the publications and studies out there. Often there are hundreds of studies to go through on a single issue. The stats get done (properly), they reject the poorly designed studies, and they form a view. They have laymans reports too online I think: great reading if you are interested in genuine evidence based medicine. The great shock of the Cochrane reviews is how much standard practice medicine has little evidence base!
I don't know if similar organisations exist for other sciences, but the Cochrane model is a very good one.