In this ‘Short’ I’ll share a few excerpts from Feynman’s oral history that give readers an idea of: How different journals and journal reviews were in the early/mid-1900s The level of open-mindedness and amicable debate that characterized the physics profession at the time
This reminds me of a post on the usefulness of peer review: https://open.substack.com/pub/experimentalhistory/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review
Feynman's mindset is a great example of Karl Popper's metaphysics concept, isn't it?