Posts Tagged ‘peer review’

On Peer Review

February 1, 2012 by Keith Kloor | Filed in academia | 14 comments

Savage Minds reminds me of Ed Carr’s commentary on peer review from late December. (Carr is a geographer who I interviewed recently for Yale Environment 360.) Here is a provocative excerpt from his post: I have found peer review to often function as a means of policing new ideas, slowing the flow of innovative ideas into…Continue Reading…

Peer Review Takes Another Hit

January 6, 2011 by Keith Kloor | Filed in peer review | 21 comments

But I view this recurring issue the same way I view revelations of juiced baseball players: Yeah, it happens, and it sullies the game, but not nearly enough to make me consider stop watching baseball. In other words, has the use of steroids fatally compromised the sport? No. So there’s two ways to look at…Continue Reading…