You don’t need to hire an academic to get peer review. Just send it to a relevant journal, and because of the blind review system, they will review it. I did it myself and got many valuable comments on my articles. One was finally accepted and one was rejected.
I think it is trainable skillset, and EY also has some papers, so I think he is able to master it. But he decided to write texts which are more attention grabbing.
As far as I understand the papers with EY in the authors list are collaborations between EY and other people where a lot of ideas come from EY but the actual paper writing was done by someone else.
MIRI did try to hire an academic to get TDT peer reviewed. It didn’t work out but I don’t think “refuse” is a good description.
You don’t need to hire an academic to get peer review. Just send it to a relevant journal, and because of the blind review system, they will review it. I did it myself and got many valuable comments on my articles. One was finally accepted and one was rejected.
Writing academic papers needs a certain skillset. That’s not a skillset that EY developed, so it makes sense to give that task to someone who has it.
I think it is trainable skillset, and EY also has some papers, so I think he is able to master it. But he decided to write texts which are more attention grabbing.
As far as I understand the papers with EY in the authors list are collaborations between EY and other people where a lot of ideas come from EY but the actual paper writing was done by someone else.