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A 'peer reviewed' paper last year had the following passage in it: "When plotted the empirical data seemed unlikely, so the data was modified to match the output of the model." (Hansen et al) The most common response from 'Natures' reviewers was, ‘It has to be wrong. I don’t know why it is wrong, but it has to be wrong.’ Which means ground breaking research frequently never gets published. There's a good article in the Guardian out peer review shortcomings he Publish-or-perish: Peer review and the corruption of science | David Colquhoun | Science | guardian.co.uk extract "Peer review is the process that decides whether your work gets published in an academic journal. It doesn't work very well any more, mainly as a result of the enormous number of papers that are being published (an estimated 1.3 million papers in 23,750 journals in 2006). There simply aren't enough competent people to do the job. The overwhelming effect of the huge (and unpaid) effort that is put into reviewing papers is to maintain a status hierarchy of journals. Any paper, however bad, can now get published in a journal that claims to be peer-reviewed." Peer review is in a mess mainly due to the internet, the gate guardians who tried to make sure that nothing too radical rocked the boat are being seen to be wrong minded. A good example of that is Henrik Svensmark's theory on the effects of cosmic rays on cloud formation as an indirect cause of global warming, his paper was trashed by the climate change gate guardians as rubbish................... then of course a couple of years later CERN proves the theory to be valid, they had to accept it, or show it to be wrong. If anyone has any doubts about peer review, read the climate gate E-Mails. |
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