Guest guest Posted January 21, 2002 Report Share Posted January 21, 2002 At 9:29 AM -0800 1/16/02, ALON MARCUS wrote: >do you think for example that Li Dang's writing went through some >kind of peer review as they were created -- I've no idea. I understand that his work was read, critiqued, and used in some way, but that may not look like the way peer review is done today. But why does it matter to us? Peer review serves a purpose in evaluating new ideas for the people living at the time the ideas are published. That something wasn't peer reviewed in the thirteenth century is of no particular medical significance to us today. Li's ideas have been constantly tested and evaluated in the eight centuries since he published them, and continue to be so. Peer review as we know it is a way to quickly evaluate new ideas/information, but it is a less reliable standard than the test of time. Many ideas that stand the test of peer review fail to withstand the test of time, or are superseded. Rory -- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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