[ironmagma]

I should have specified for pedants that I meant the system of peer review and scientific inquiry.

[kragen]

You think that's better than the work that preceded peer review, by people like Einstein, Bunsen, Kelvin, Planck, Darwin, Maxwell, Mendeleev, Michelson, Steinmetz, Faraday, Davy, Haber, Tesla, etc.? Because I have to say I find the pre-peer-review papers to generally be of much higher quality.

[moring]

How did you come to the conclusion that those have not been peer-reviewed? Every uni course that presents the work of these people implicitly reviews it for consistency, and the advanced practices courses repeat their experiments.

Also, survivorship bias.

[ironmagma]

We can modify the human genome now, how is that not an order of magnitude more impressive?

[eviks]

You're still too vague. Do you mean the <100 old peer review system? And that it's better than all the scientific discoveries of the past thousands of years?