Category: Peer review

“Another example surely is the parade of “missing link” stories that supposedly corroborate a Darwinian evolution script.” more

Readers, please, if you never take anything else away from Uncommon Descent, learn this: A world where Darwinism is unquestioned can be a dangerous place for human beings. more

Taxpayers who can’t afford to pay what the journal charges for articles are actually funding all this. more

“Right from the title, the Demoman knew your paper had to be rejected.” more

Getting past peer review just means that the in crowd doesn’t need you to fail just now. more

Quibble: The results that the journals find “exciting” and “newsworthy” are usually “novel” only in a very restricted sense: They are pushing the envelope of what is already believed. more

The most likely reason is that the educators involved do not believe that anyone has made a free choice to cheat or that cheating is an ethical issue. more

” … more than 100 acts of data fabrication and falsification, the university said Wednesday, throwing much of his work into doubt.” more

“a bright and ambitious young man working in an elite institution in a rapidly moving and highly competitive branch of modern biology or medicine … ” more

“Reanalyses of statistics in published psychology papers show frequent errors, and the more reluctant authors are to share their data, the more likely it is that their papers will contain mistakes.” more