re: #314 Mark Winter

We know that “peer review” has not always been what it should have been. A tragic victim of ignorant peer review was Ignaz Semmelweis

[Link: en.wikipedia.org…]

But the scientific community has grown so much that those stories are far less likely today.

And that is a very important note. In an age of rapid communications between tens of thousands of researchers, something big gets out fast if it has the chops.

Relativity and QM did not languish.