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To: metmom
Scientists are not exempt from all the human foibles the rest of us are, no matter how objective they claim to be, how pure their motives supposedly are in the search for *truth* or whatever it is they're currently claiming to look for, no matter how intellectually superior they try to pass themselves off as.

What do you propose think we should do about it? Eliminate peer review?

38 posted on 12/08/2009 11:33:22 AM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic
What do you propose think we should do about it? Eliminate peer review?

What's the reason to keep it?

41 posted on 12/08/2009 11:35:35 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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