From: rhinoceros (rhinoceros@freemail.gr)
Date: Sat Jul 13 2002 - 15:30:52 MDT
[rhinoceros]
The need to rely on peer review is the weak link of science today. Science is a creative process and it is not neutral.
[Walter]
Whoa, there, Rhino.
Credentialed peer review is not a weak link. It is science's very foundation.
[rhinoceros]
Of course it is. But it is not failsafe. I remember that experiment by Michael Mahoney, who tried to test the criteria by which the reviewers judged and found out that they were biased according to their own line of work.
See, I didn't even say a word about money or sponsors here.
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