Quote worth verifying

[daraknor]

"The history of many innovations, both in medicine and in other areas of endeavor, indicate that the innovators are often erratic, unsystematic, and difficult to deal with. The quality controllers often regard the work as of poor quality and not worth publishing or noting. ... The only problem is that the quality controllers, while exquisite in their crossing of t's and dotting of i's, rarely discover anything that matters. The improvement of research quality over the past years is not gain if it has occurred at the expense of innovation." David F. Horrobin, D.Phil., "The Philosophical Basis of Peer review and the Suppression of Innovation," Journal of the American Medical Association, March 9, 1990 Page 224

Probably wouldn't mind reading the whole essay