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"It's always about the relationship between science and society"

Three million anonymously-reviewed specialist artiszcles are published worldwide every year. But doubts about "peer review"—a procedure that began in the twentieth century—are ever increasing. Jürgen Renn and Roberto Lalli are quoted in this article by Johan Schloemann in Süddeutsche Zeitung on the history, benefits, and disadvantages of peer review.