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It depends who is in the hive. I wlodun't expect economists, physicists or hair stylists to evaluate original research in molecular biology, or vice versa. But within their own fields, those people can and do evaluate each other's work that's pretty much how science is supposed to work. Once a research paper is published, the hive mind' decides if and how it fits into the existing body of knowledge, or indeed changes it. Sometimes important work gets ignored for a long time and rediscovered later. Sometimes it gets attention right away. One of the paradoxes of science, I think, is that you are both building on the previous body of knowledge standing on the shoulders of giants and potentially undermining that knowledge, because it might well be wrong. Lewin might be right a lot of the time, but he may also be wrong. The physics/math community have a bit of a different process because their papers are usually posted online as preprints before being formally published, and the papers are ...See More


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