Yamaha FG-840
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Oh yeah - Peer Review is also the system that led to the enormous Piltdown Man evolutionary fraud that derailed human evolutionary research for the entire first half of the 20th century.
"In November 1953, authorities of the British Natural History Museum announced these findings and publicly called Piltdown Man a fraud."
https://www.history.com/news/piltdown-man-hoax-100-years-ago
Every single time some great scientific scam is perpetrated on people by Academics, they get their fake papers stamped as authorized by the Political Review system.
Many, in fact most most people, in most fields, especially technical fields, are actually allowed to recommend the referees for their own papers.
The reason it's a staple of Peer Review is because it's able to have papers pushed through politically: claiming ''Only a few people involved in a field can read the field's literature well enough to understand it.''
"In November 1953, authorities of the British Natural History Museum announced these findings and publicly called Piltdown Man a fraud."
https://www.history.com/news/piltdown-man-hoax-100-years-ago
Every single time some great scientific scam is perpetrated on people by Academics, they get their fake papers stamped as authorized by the Political Review system.
Many, in fact most most people, in most fields, especially technical fields, are actually allowed to recommend the referees for their own papers.
The reason it's a staple of Peer Review is because it's able to have papers pushed through politically: claiming ''Only a few people involved in a field can read the field's literature well enough to understand it.''