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

[Glen Miller]

I agree with Tim and Don about peer review.

Thanks for the article Paul.

On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 6:28 PM DON HALTERMAN <donhalterman at comcast.net>
wrote:

> 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
> > To: Rockhound List
> > 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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