How Peer Review is Used to Shut Down Debate
Peer review is not 'the foundation of the scientific process' as a NASA scientist claims. And climate scientists have no business telling the public where scientific arguments can and cannot be conducted.
Peer review is not 'the foundation of the scientific process' as a NASA scientist claims. And climate scientists have no business telling the public where scientific arguments can and cannot be conducted.
By Don Aitkin | September 4, 2016 I came across the phrase in the title, and followed a link to a recent journal article which for once was available on open access. Entitled ‘Science and the Public: Debate, Denial, and Skepticism’, it looked interesting. You can read it here. The four authors come from different fields, and propose to […]
Academics insist that peer-reviewed research is sound and that everything else is inferior. But scholarly journals are actually littered with muck.