If people are going to do post-publication peer review, they need to abide by the same rules as they abide by for… — Susan Fiske Copy Share Image
Barring some national security concern, I see no valid reason to keep peer-reviewed research from the public. To be clear, by 'peer… — Wilbur Ross Copy Share Image
“Science could potentially do a better job explaining the meaning of life if scientists devise experiments that can weed out the best… — G.M. Jackson Copy Share Image
“In the 1920s, there was a dinner at which the physicist Robert W. Wood was asked to respond to a toast ...… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Peer review is fine, as long as you're making incremental improvements to a technology. — Lonnie Johnson Copy Share Image
“Why do we put up with it? Do we like to be criticized? No, no scientist enjoys it. Every scientist feels a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
With my tongue in one cheek only, I'd suggest that were our palaeolithic ancestors to discover the peer-review dredger, we would be… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
In these unfiltered, un-moderated social media posts people are speculating about others' motivations. And you could no more put that in a… — Susan Fiske Copy Share Image
If you are doing a peer review of somebody's paper before publication, the editor would not allow you to speculate about the… — Susan Fiske Copy Share Image
I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my more than 60 years as a member of the American scientific community, including service as president of both the National… — Frederick Seitz Copy Share Image
“What do we want? EVIDENCE-BASED CHANGE. When do we want it? AFTER PEER REVIEW.” — Epic sign of college protestor Copy Share Image
...I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow,… — Phil Jones Copy Share Image
Even if individual researchers are prone to falling in love with their own theories, the broader process of peer review and institutionalized… — Chris Mooney Copy Share Image
“To be a successful academic, it is not enough merely to have mastered the craft of writing intelligibly. You must also be… — Helen Sword Copy Share Image
There are, by the most conservative counting, two grave and deeply regrettable collateral victims of the peer-review gruesome stratagem: one is the… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
For peer review, replication, and objectivity to make any headway on the continuum, for science to find the right answers to anything,… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
Science advances by trial and error. When mistakes are made, the peer-review publication process usually roots them out. Cuccinelli's version of the… — Scott Mandia Copy Share Image
Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
One of the biggest costs in the whole scientific publishing world is borne by the academic community, which is the peer review. — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
“Most of the time, we are concerned with the truth. A cashier has to make sure he knows the exact change he's… — Andrew Stephen Damick Copy Share Image
Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“The feminist movement as we have come to know it in recent decades is fundamentally a "con."...As it is considered treasonous to… — Robert Sheaffer Copy Share Image
Even when EPA subjects its science to peer review, the agency often stacks the deck of supposedly independent advisory panels by including… — Ralph Hall Copy Share Image
