Fabio Ynoe de Moraes, Associate Professor at Queen’s University, Deputy Editor of JCO Global Oncology, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Reviewer one or two is not persuaded…
Quite remarkable how science sometimes allows one or two anonymous opinions to shape the fate of ideas, careers, and potentially entire directions of discovery.
Peer review remains essential.
But it is also deeply human: subjective, imperfect, influenced by timing, framing, bias, and vision.
Some of the most transformative ideas in medicine and science were initially rejected, ignored, or misunderstood.
A rejection is not always a verdict on quality. Sometimes it is simply a reflection that an idea arrived before consensus was ready for it.
The challenge is knowing the difference between a flawed idea and an uncomfortable one.
Science advances not only through rigor, but through persistence.
What is the best idea you ever heard that was initially rejected?”
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