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Earlier this year I posted a series of articles explaining what scientific peer-review is, and what it isn't. The series was very popu...

Part 4 of this series on how peer-review works...and doesn't work focuses on the power of the internet to rapidly spread the message o...

This is a continuation of the series on how peer-review works…and doesn’t work. Part 1 looked at the basics of how the peer-review proce...

Last week in Part 1 we looked at the basics of how the peer-review process works for scientific papers - what it does, and what it doesn...

You’ll see the term “peer-review” a lot on these pages, as well as on both scientific and denialist blogs, and in the media. Unfortunatel...

In the last post I talked about the efforts of some people to shift published research from the firewalled journal article to an open acces...

Recently there has been a lot of talk about making scientific journals open access.  The argument is that much of science is funded by the...