John Hawks (@johnhawks): "Fascinating history of the scientific journal Nature and the decisions of its editors since its founding. Hard to overstate the importance these decisions had for the field of human evolution research. Many distortions of incentives that became entrenched from the 1970s onwards,…"

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Fascinating history of the scientific journal Nature and the decisions of its editors since its founding. Hard to overstate the importance these decisions had for the field of human evolution research. Many distortions of incentives that became entrenched from the 1970s onwards, selecting for some kinds of work and preventing others.

Ultimately, peer review didn’t transform Nature’s standing so much as protect it, converting exclusivity that might have seemed arbitrary into gatekeeping that appeared meritocratic.

Asimov Press

Jan 18

4:33 PM

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