nerzhin comments on Individual vs. Group Epistemic Rationality - Less Wrong
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This seems like a good question that's worth thinking about. I wonder if adversarial legal systems (where the job of deciding who is guilty of a crime is divided into the roles of prosecutor, defense attorney, and judge/jury) can be considered an example of this, and if so, why don't scientific institutions do something similar?
Arguably, peer review provides a vaguely similar function - a peer reviewer should turn their skepticism up a notch.