Simon Singh on peer review
May 26, 2014
Bishop Hill in Journals

I was intrigued to see Simon Singh retweeting a letter to the Times criticising the peer review system. Penned by Professor Tony Waldron of UCL, it described peer review as being a system in which one group of scientists does its best to stop another group from publishing. I'm sure plenty of readers will have no dispute with this.

Given Singh also has great enthusiasm for mainstream positions on climate change and a tendency to invoke the peer reviewed literature and the IPCC in his support, I wondered if these two positions weren't a bit inconsistent.

 

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