@BrightStar You are thinking of the replication crisis and the number you cited is not correct when talking about all of peer-review, that figure is specific to psychology which is where the replication crisis is the biggest problem.

Regardless of any number about what percentage has false data the problem is **not** using peer review has far more false data, so not really an argument to avoid it.

@freemo Ok,so you are not aware of the fact that 50% of the scientific publications are presenting false conclusions then...

@BrightStar I am aware of the argument and real evidence it draws on... however your conclusion is, as I said, incorrect. The replication crisis is largely focused on the psychology sector and does not apply so much when we talk about peer-reviewed papers in other sectors. Moreover, as a I said the number of "incorrect facts" in non-peer reviewed sources is generally much much higher.

@freemo

I am not referring to this replication crisis in psychology... only on the fact that the peer reviewed process is faulty, relies on consensus...relies on a faulty system of self-confirmation and as other researchers and scientists will testify, produces research papers and publications with 50% false results. So then, all other researchers and scientists keep compounding the errors by quoting each other. So there it is...I can provide more data and information on all of this later on. Have a nice day.

@BrightStar Not true.. if a scientist would argue that peer review causes 50% false review it wouldn't be passing peer review since the scientists claiming that are the same scientists replicating results. The replication crisis is the concern you are describing and was checked in some detail, and the results do **not** show an across the board 50% error rate.

Presuming you are pulling from the actual numbers on the matter, and not some conspiracy theory nonsense, you are likely thinking of the poll where scientists said that 70% of them failed to reproduce an experiment **at least once**... they did **not** say they fail to reproduce experiments 50% of the time.