Social status bias in science: a dissident perspective
Let me tell you a story about science. (Deep breath) Once upon a time there was no peer review in science. Instead, the editor made his own comments and edits,…
“positively motivated to help all of humankind”
As soft censorship in academia is the law of the land, we've been accumulating a bunch of funny worded rejections and pre-rejections. Rejections arise when you submit some work for…
Scientists should be allowed to recommend their own peer reviewers
Leo Tiokhin has a post up arguing the opposite of the title of my post. His argument is that a number of studies find that reviewers suggested by authors provide…
Admixture analysis and genetic causation: some quotes from the literature
A common comment on bias in scientific peer review is that reviewers don't usually say openly they are applying double standards. Instead, they just silently increase their standards. If their…
Reeding material: Peer review, open acces, open sience
For som reeson i started reeding about peer review, and i ended up reeding a lot of interesting articles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review Two quotes stand out, copyd from the Criticism section: “There…
Dawkins: “Viruses of the mind”
If u havnt red it, it is definitly worth reeding: http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Dawkins/viruses-of-the-mind.html Altho i think that Dawkins is rong about th degree to wich sientific ideas show virus-like symtms. Surely, ther…