I found this especially grating because he used it to criticize engineering. Peer review is only very dubiously an important part of science; but it’s just plain confused to look at a plan to build a bridge, to build a spaceship, or to prevent a comet from destroying Earth and say “Oh, no, it hasn’t been peer reviewed.”
I found this especially grating because he used it to criticize engineering. Peer review is only very dubiously an important part of science; but it’s just plain confused to look at a plan to build a bridge, to build a spaceship, or to prevent a comet from destroying Earth and say “Oh, no, it hasn’t been peer reviewed.”
Hard agree, it felt iffy to me.