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....In the world of scientific journals, there is a quality control
mechanism known as peer review. The idea is that a number of independent
experts scrutinize a proposed paper, check its correctness and its
utility, and suggest changes where necessary. But peer review doesn’t
always catch issues with papers before they are published. This is a
particular problem when the reviewers work or have worked closely with
the authors, and share their conceptual framework. Indeed, where a group
of experts on a subject have formed a clique, it’s easy for groupthink
to develop. In such a situation, only those ideas with which clique
members are comfortable are likely to pass muster and get published."
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