The writer is a professor at MIT and Politecnico di Milano, and founder of Carlo Ratti Associati
For once, I should thank the Trump administration. It has forced academia to confront a problem that has long needed attention: the shortcomings of peer review. The proposed cure, however, is far worse than the disease.
The modern American research system grew out of the vision of a single engineer from my own university, MIT. In 1945, Vannevar Bush proposed a grand three-way bargain: government would fund research; scientists with the relevant expertise would judge its merit; and society would reap the benefits. That arrangement gave us the modern American research university and the long chain of inventions that shape our lives today.
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