In which one of the core arguments of HARDCODED is confirmed by a scientist responsible for one of the leading preprint repositories. I mean, how can scientists be expected to check their own citations and their own math? Motoo Kimura didn’t even check his algebra and they gave him all kinds of awards!
The majority of professional published peer-reviewed science was already garbage before a bunch of innumerate techno-illiterates started misusing AI to write their papers. The incentives have always been perverse and absolutely guaranteed the terrible state in which science now finds itself.
I am 100% convinced peer review is responsible for the sad state of the sciences now. It creates a flattening effect on progress as “established” scientists can rig the system in favour of their established theories. Tesla didn’t need peer review when he created AC theory.