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NeuroLogica on peer-review

Steven Novella of the blog NeuroLogica writes an essay on peer review. " Peer-review is a critical part of the functioning of the scientific community, of quality control, and the self corrective nature of science", he writes. "But it is no panacea. It is helpful to understand what it is, and what it isn’t, its uses and abuses."
The essay is a short but informative account of the standard peer-review processes of many scientific journals, including a short paragraph about post-publication peer-review. At the time of writing this post, there are two comments on the subject of peer-review and fraud.
Dr Novella's "bottom line: peer-review is a necessary component of quality control in science, but is no guarantee of quality, and you have to know the details of the journal that is providing the peer-review."

Posted by Maxine Clarke on June 14, 2007
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