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Laurence J. Peter (1919–1990) Canadian eductor
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“The peer review system is satisfactory during quiescent times, but not during a revolution in a discipline such as astrophysics, when the establishment seeks to preserve the status quo.”
Source: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents (1988), p. 197.
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