Peer reviews. Can we have another model?
We could – I think we should – apply this model to scientific publishing. Publish first, and then let consumers decide what is good or important and what is not.
This would not mean the end of quality control or peer-reviewing – you can have all of that, indeed you can get more of it and in a more efficient way, if that happens after publication.
And this would allow us to get rid of a rent-seeking intermediary no-one needs anymore: the scientific journals themselves.
Needull in a haystack 