Peer review really just means it passes basic sense checks by a couple of peers, it isn’t necessarily an exhaustive process. It’s pretty common for papers to get refuted later, in the much more exhaustive long term peer review process that is science, in which a whole scientific community picks the paper apart over time. Unfortunately this can make it difficult for people outside the field to know which papers are currently considered to be authoritative and which aren’t, publication in a top ranked peer reviewed journal means it’s worthy of consideration but could still be completely wrong.
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Peer review really just means it passes basic sense checks by a couple of peers, it isn’t necessarily an exhaustive process. It’s pretty common for papers to get refuted later, in the much more exhaustive long term peer review process that is science, in which a whole scientific community picks the paper apart over time. Unfortunately this can make it difficult for people outside the field to know which papers are currently considered to be authoritative and which aren’t, publication in a top ranked peer reviewed journal means it’s worthy of consideration but could still be completely wrong.