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Author Topic:   Peer Review or BUST??
Dr Jack
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Message 2 of 73 (618922)
06-07-2011 4:48 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Chuck77
06-07-2011 3:59 AM


As time goes by, I think less and less of peer review: frankly, it doesn't work that well. Most peer reviewed findings are wrong, and many "peer reviewed" journals are utter rags. However, it does provide a minimum hurdle that keeps a certain portion of utter drivel out of the scientific press.
That aside, it's simply not true that "Basically Creation Scientists are censored", if a Creation Scientist produced proper compelling research casting doubt on evolution they wouldn't just pass peer review they'd be published with fanfare in the most prestigious scientific journals in the world. The reason they're not is because they're not producing good science.
In fact, there are very few Creation Scientists who are actually doing anything recognisable as science. And this is the reason they're not getting published.

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Dr Jack
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06-07-2011 6:06 AM
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06-07-2011 5:50 AM


cavediver writes:
I think this is a mistaken view of "peer-review". A published paper is not "correct" in any form - it is simply of (supposedly) sufficient quality to be broadcast for journal's readership.
That was pretty much what I was saying.
The true peer-review is in the extended discourse arising from the paper's contents, which may take the form of further papers, letters, private communications, etc. Peer-review is an extended process. The most damning peer-review is silence. At least as important as the paper is its citation index.
Indeed, but that kind of peer review is not the kind of peer review that determines whether or not something is published in the peer reviewed press.

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