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“Peer review is a very flawed practice … It is slow and expensive, a lottery, and prone to abuse and bias. Much of the time it doesn’t pick up errors.”
I should note as an aside to this that it always struck me as strange how the financial model of academic journals could be allowed to become standard practice.
Thu 30 Jun 2005 at 16:17 ·
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You are reading Richard Smith on the medical journal cartel, a Microlog entry by MacDara Conroy. It is filed under Reading & Writing, and was published in June 2005.
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