Peer Review or BUST??

Chuck77 writes: It seems fair (the article).

CMI writes: The First Law of Thermodynamics (law of conservation of energy) was first formulated by German physician J. R Mayer in 1842.

CMI writes: However, Mayer’s revolutionary research was rejected by the leading German physics journal Annalen der Physik.

Wiki writes: Mayer was the first person to state the law of the conservation of energy, one of the most fundamental tenets of modern day physics. The law of the conservation of energy states that the total mechanical energy of a system remains constant in any isolated system of objects that interact with each other only by way of forces that are conservative.Mayer's first attempt at stating the conservation of energy was a paper he sent to Johann Christian Poggendorff's Annalen der Physik, in which he postulated a conservation of force (Erhaltungssatz der Kraft). However, owing to Mayer's lack of advanced training in physics, it contained some fundamental mistakes and was not published.Mayer continued to pursue the idea steadfastly and argued with the Tbingen physics professor Johann Gottlieb Nrremberg, who rejected his hypothesis. Nrremberg did, however, give Mayer a number of valuable suggestions on how the idea could be examined experimentally; for example, if kinetic energy transforms into heat energy, water should be warmed by vibration.Mayer not only performed this demonstration, but determined also the quantitative factor of the transformation, calculating the mechanical equivalent of heat. The result of his investigations was published 1842 in the May edition of Justus von ***'s Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie.[4] In his booklet Die organische Bewegung im Zusammenhang mit dem Stoffwechsel (The Organic Movement in Connection with the Metabolism, 1845) he specified the numerical value of the mechanical equivalent of heat: at first as 365 kgfm/kcal,[5] later as 425 kgfm/kcal; the modern values are 4.184 kJ/kcal (426.6 kgfm/kcal) for the thermochemical calorie and 4.1868 kJ/kcal (426.9 kgfm/kcal) for the international steam table calorie.This relation implies that, although work and heat are different forms of energy, they can be transformed into one another. This law is called the first law of the caloric theory and led to the formulation of the general principle of conservation of energy, definitively stated by Hermann von Helmholtz in 1847.

cmi writes:Apart from the glaring inconsistencies in this line of argument (if young-earth research should only be taken seriously if it passes the peer-review of non young-earth scientists, then shouldn’t old-earth research only be taken seriously if it passes the peer-review of young-earth scientists? Are the ‘peers’ of old-earth scientists not also proponents of an old earth? Would this not cast serious doubt on the validity of their research?),