I can feel the status quo bias weighing down all of our imaginations.
People who are all-in on a hierarchy don’t like it when you question its central assumptions. If peer review doesn’t work or is even harmful to science, it suggests that the people at the top of the hierarchy might be naked emperors, and that’s upsetting not just to the naked emperors themselves but also to the people who are diligently disrobing in hopes of becoming one. In fact, it’s more than upsetting—it’s dangerous, because it could tip over a ladder that has many people on it.
You should be able to lay out the data without embarrassment, you should be able to answer any good-faith objections, and you should be both honest about and comfortable with the limits of your knowledge. You definitely shouldn’t have to resort to invoking prestige or threatening to get me fired. If that’s all you got, you ain’t got much.Arguing on the internet is all well and good. It helps you trim the flabby parts of your reasoning, like cognitive liposuction.
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