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There's a whole Internet to post important results on without waiting for peer review. If you're an established practitioner in your field making claims that are straightforward to follow, other practitioners will probably read you.


How can it be an important result if nobody has peer reviewed it let alone reproduced it?

It's a potentially important claim


People keep saying peer review is just a sanity check but no one seems to really grasp it. I get it because internet discourse has overblown the validity of peer reviewed articles to an insane degree.

Peer review is just a sanity check. Authors and scientists and studies and papers are important or not independent of the peer review process.




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