Be weary of "scientific" journals

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  1. Eastoff

    Eastoff But it was a beginning.

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    Eastoff, Oct 4, 2013
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    Do you mean wary?
     
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    The other half of the story, from the same link:


    Bohannan says the exercise is a damning indictment of the way peer review works (or doesn't) at many online journals. Peer review is the time-honored system of having outside experts comb through submissions to identify flaws in method, data or conclusions. It's the way scientific journals do quality control.

    "Peer review is in a worse state than anyone guessed," he says.
     
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    =[ thank you
     
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    I would assume the "peers" either were not actually informed on the subject or did not read the papers
     
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    I assume he sent out 300 and that a few were like vanity publishing sites (pay to be published) and most were peer reviewed that just failed to do the job.
     
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