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Healthy reef defies dubious science

10 August 2022

2:37 PM

10 August 2022

2:37 PM

‘Peer-reviewed’ is not interchangeable with ‘established fact’ or ‘beyond question’. It used to be an acknowledgement that others in the profession had read a scientist’s work and generally agreed that its reasoning looked sound and its assumptions ostensibly correct. Peer review offers no guarantee that the claims were submitted to rigorous testing or that the workmanship of the author was sound.

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