Below is part of an interchange in the comments section of a recent Financial Times article on scientific fraud:
Comment: I am a scientist. I spend all my time trying not to be wrong in print. Even then, occasionally I am. It is the same for all of us. Furthermore, some scientists are very poor at dealing with statistics and are thus wrong more than others. Our common incompetence is different from actual fraud. . .
Reply: It’s unacceptable for scientists to publish errors due to being ‘poor at statistics’. Huge amounts of money is being wasted, lives are being lost – the least people can do is get training, or work with someone else who IS good at them.
https://www.ft.com/content/c88634cd-ea99-41ec-8422-b47ed2ffc45a
If peer review isn’t solely about error avoidance, how can it aspire to be reliable?
WHEN COMPLEX IS AS SIMPLE AS IT GETS 