06-30-2008, 10:07 PM | #11 |
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peer review is like a jury.
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06-30-2008, 10:14 PM | #12 |
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Worst post ever? Could be.
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Then I would vote guilty everytime.
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If you mean that you think my comedic timing is off, then okay. Otherwise, what?
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I think you just stated the obvious about science, and you made a very inapt comparison. If science ever made a claim to have gotten everything right and arrived at all the answers it would cease to be science. It would have transmogrified into religion. It kills me how people around here (tooblue the worst offender) think that science needs to apologize for getting things wrong, and that this somehow exculpates religions' ridiculous misaprehentions and misdeeds. Getting things wrong is to science what the downfield pass is to football--not the incomplete pass, the pass itself, mind you.
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Glad to hear you were being ironic.
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The peer review process is not perfect but it nowhere near as bankrupt or biased as Mr. Horton portrays. I have heard people use that same rhetoric to attack science in general. It is nonsense. But the peer review process is a process and one should never draw broad conclusions based on anecdotal cases. Sometimes crappy papers get published (frequently) and sometimes good papers get rejected (rarely). Truly visionary and groundbreaking papers not only get published, but they typically win lots of awards.
Statements like Mr. Horton's are generally made by people engaging in quasi-science (creationism or homeopathy, for example) or by crappy researchers who are on the verge of being denied tenure and just can't face the cold hard reality that maybe they just don't have it.
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It's almost impossilble for a non -terrible paper to not get published.
It's just that it will be published in a crappy journal. |
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Just to clarify, landpoke: while I don't agree with the quote you posted, feel free to question an individual paper. Passing the peer-review process certainly doesn't give any paper the stamp of infallibility.
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