What is the role of peer review in science?

Answer 1

Peer review seeks to check on the methodology of the scientists as well as to see that the experiment was explained well enough to be duplicated.

In developing and testing a hypothesis, there are errors that become difficult to spot by the very individuals involved in the testing and in the evaluations of the conclusions --example -- the "ivory billed woodpecker" supposed discoveries in Arkansas in 2004-5, in which the methodology was seriously flawed and the ornithologists rushed into print without a substantial peer review.

Answer 2

If you're talking about scholarly articles, the peer review happens after you submit your article to a scholarly journal. A team of people who know the subject will review the article for content to determine if it is publishable material. Some journals have more lax methods than others, illustrated by some of the junk information that is floating out there calling itself scholarly, for instance an experiment with no control group.

Answer 3

Peer review has tho Role of checking out any member of that group that puts forth a new idea or modifies an old one. It is to keep charlatans from putting out false information.

Answer 4

To avoid doctrine. Peer review judges your work and validates it.