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originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee âš5â© âšweeksâ© agoNo, they canât. Peer review is not the peers you determine - itâs the peers of your community. Science that is not public is not science, because it cannot be independently verified and reproduced. It is not a small point, itâs one of the foundations of the disciplines of science.
kernelle@lemmy.world âš5â© âšweeksâ© ago
An organisation with fully independent teams tackling the same problems can absolutely be defined as peer review. Not in the traditional sense, but reviewing, confirming and replicating nonetheless. Following the scientific method is what makes something scientific, not the act of publishing.
You can argue of the merits of those papers, an organisation can never make public statements about private research. But saying that what their doing is not science, then youâre just needlessly gatekeeping.
originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee âš5â© âšweeksâ© ago
No it literally cannot be so defined. The last part of the scientific method is âreport conclusions.â That means public scrutiny free of bias. Internal groups are not public.
This is akin to saying that a corporation doesnât need to use the courts because it has internal judges. They might have trials, but by definition they are not doing justice.
kernelle@lemmy.world âš5â© âšweeksâ© ago
Reporting your conclusions doesnât require being public. It means the larger group of people you release it to, the less bias youâll have. Meaning in a closed organisation you have added biases of companies and marginally less people to prove you wrong, decreasing the overal quality of the conducted science. But still science, which by definition isnât black and white.