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Peer Review

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

Out of all the recent emails that were apparently hacked or leaked from a prominent laboratory in England ("Climategate," some are calling it), this one bothers me. It shows how "peer review" worked from the inside: From: Keith *** To: Edward *** Subject: Re: Review- confidential REALLY URGENTDate: Wed Jun 4 16:02:09 2003[OMITTED]At 09:50 AM 6/4/03 -0400, you wrote:Hi Keith,Okay, today. Promise! Now something to ask from you. Actually somewhat important too. I got a paper to review (submitted to the Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Sciences), written by a Korean guy and someone from Berkeley, that claims that the method of reconstruction that we use in dendroclimatology (reverse regression) is wrong, biased, lousy, horrible, etc...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on November 23, 2009 (boomark / email).