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To: Right Wing Professor
TIBS is not a major journal and not peer reviewed

TIBS is well read and respected. Major is subjective. The Trends/Today series is pretty good. I'm not sure why you want to knock it.

As far as peer review, you can go to this technical level. It is a review journal, not a research journal, so fair enough, but a kind of evasion of the issue. Your description of it suffices to make the point. They don't publish articles from people who are not peers or have no standing in the field. That's the point. Agree or disagree with Behe he has published biological research in quite major (eg J. Mol. Bio) and well read journals.

He ain't going to win a Nobel prize, but few do.

95 posted on 08/16/2004 12:37:04 PM PDT by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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To: tallhappy; Right Wing Professor
TIBS is well read and respected. Major is subjective. The Trends/Today series is pretty good. I'm not sure why you want to knock it.

Reviews are only as good as the reviewer. There was a recent TICB article on a subject related to my field that was riddled with mistakes and inaccuracies. These things are good for an introduction to an area you are unfamiliar with, but there is no substitute for going to the primary literature and interpreting the data for yourself.

99 posted on 08/16/2004 12:48:28 PM PDT by RightWingNilla
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To: tallhappy
As far as peer review, you can go to this technical level. It is a review journal, not a research journal, so fair enough, but a kind of evasion of the issue

You said it was peer-reviewed. Withdraw that, and the iissue is moot.

100 posted on 08/16/2004 12:50:03 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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