[Rockhounds] Peer review as the 'gold standard' ?

[DON HALTERMAN]

And the opposite is also true... many peer reviewers don't really review at all, or aren't qualified to review particular papers, and a lot of junk gets published that should have never made it past a real peer review.

Don


> On August 5, 2019 at 5:59 PM Tim Fisher <nospam at orerockon.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Good one Paul. I have personally been the victim of "peer review attacks" as
> we like to call it. Some people don't just trash your paper because they are
> on the opposite side of an issue, they are actively networking to prevent
> publication of papers they don't agree with in other journals, sometimes the
> same paper if it was resubmitted.
> 
> Tim Fisher
> Http://OreRockOn.com 
> Email nospam at orerockon.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rockhounds [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com] On
> Behalf Of Paul
> Sent: Monday, August 05, 2019 3:40 PM
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> Subject: [Rockhounds] Peer review as the 'gold standard' ?
> 
> Why we shouldn???t take peer review as the ???gold standard???
> It???s too easy for bad actors to exploit the process and mislead the public
> By Paul D. Thacker and Jon Tennant, Washington Post, August 1, 2019
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/why-we-shouldnt-take-peer-review-as-t
> he-gold-standard/2019/08/01/fd90749a-b229-11e9-8949-5f36ff92706e_story.html
> 
> The Radical Transformation of the Textbook Brian Barrett, Wired, august 4,
> 2019 https://www.wired.com/story/digital-textbooks-radical-transformation/
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Paul H.
> 
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