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Journal Peer Review: A Worthless Waste of Time and Money - Ed Jewett - 11-07-2011 Journal Peer Review: A Worthless Waste of Time and Money: A recent meta-research study (ironically, a peer-reviewed one) concludes that peer review of scientific journals produces no improvement in quality, stifles controversy and innovation, wastes time and costs a prohibitive amount. With the Internet, the authors say, such review is obsolete; better to publish everything and let post-publication peer review separate the good from the bad. Thanks to Tree for the link: http://breast-cancer-research.com/content/12/S4/S13 Found at http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2011/07/08/links-for-the-month-july-7-2011/ |