[js1138]

Someone can correct me if I am mistaken, but I believe that the editor of that journal was fired mainly because he published that paper without it having gone through the normal peer review process.

I don't think he was fired. I think his term expired. It's possible he might have been given another term in the absense of the controversy.

It's clear he guided the paper through a nonstandard review and published it without noting the warnings of the reviewers.

I don't think his career should be destroyed by this. That would be counterproductive.

[stremba]

Thanks for the correction. I was pretty sure, though, that he wasn't fired just because he dared to publish a paper dealing favorably with ID as was implied by the original poster.

[Michael_Michaelangelo]

It's clear he guided the paper through a nonstandard review and published it without noting the warnings of the reviewers.

Here's a quote straight from Dr. Sternberg:

I did not act unilaterally or surreptitiously in my handling of the Meyer paper. Within the Society, I raised and discussed the paper and its potentially controversial nature with a scientist on the staff of the Museum of Natural History and a fellow member of the Council of the BSW soon after its submission and before deciding to send it out for peer review, and then again after receiving the peer reviews and before sending notification to Dr. Meyer of acceptance. I discussed the paper with this scientist on at least three occasions. Each time this person encouraged me to proceed, stating that the controversy would be beneficial since it was good occasionally to shake up people's established views on important issues.

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