Trends in research spending over time: American proliferation of doctoral degrees: Facetiousness unbound: Huh. It's almost as if the technological competition between the US and USSR had been won and 20 years of military-grade innovation spooled out into busywork. What is the correct protocol for including peer reviews that I have done in a CV? How will you know you're an academic if you don't rub dicks with other academics? Especially when everyone making over a buck a year has a master's degree minimum?
Peer review has a misleadingly long history, conveniently dated to when the Royal Society started asking for anonymous reports in the 1830s on whether some papers should be published in its Philosophical Transactions. But the use of peer review was patchy at best until the 1970s, when it became the norm at all kinds of scientific journals. Indeed the journal Nature, for many the pinnacle venue for publishing science, didn’t start peer review until 1973. In the short span of time since the 1970s, peer review has now grown from an occasional things into a beast that is devouring the time and energy and careers of scientists.