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To: aruanan

“Most of the greatest achievements of science took place before what we call today peer review.”

Achievements, not publications.
Today, we subject scientific articles to peer review. Unreviewed articles are nothing more than musings designed to deceive.


23 posted on 06/18/2009 9:10:40 AM PDT by Buck W. (The President of the United States IS named Schickelgruber...)
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To: Buck W.
Unreviewed articles are nothing more than musings designed to deceive.

Has that assertion of yours been peer reviewed?

63 posted on 06/18/2009 10:07:13 AM PDT by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: Buck W.
Achievements, not publications. Today, we subject scientific articles to peer review. Unreviewed articles are nothing more than musings designed to deceive.

Yes, and they were published also. What we call peer review nowadays is scarcely 50 years old.
259 posted on 06/18/2009 9:02:51 PM PDT by aruanan
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