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Whether we like it or not, research is already, easily and increasingly, published outside of journals, and so are reviews. Reforming peer review, therefore, should mean working with the way science is shared in public, not ignoring it.

Let’s start with some twins: Coinbase and Kraken, if you like, or Uber and Lyft. The buyers and sellers on the exchanges are interchangeable for users, as are the taxi drivers and riders. Supply and demand in both cases is fungible: it doesn’t matter who you’re trading with, just that there is someone to complete the transaction.

The best description of motivated reasoning I’ve ever seen comes from psychologist Tom Gilovich. When we want something to be true, he said, we ask ourselves, “Can I believe this?,” searching for an excuse to accept it. When we don’t want something to be true, we instead ask ourselves, “Must I believe this?,” searching for an excuse to reject it