Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@weschenbach on X, blog at Skating Under The Ice) We’re told, endlessly, that science is a self-correcting machine. A pristine engine of truth where bad…
Category: Peer review
Paper Chase: A Global Industry Fuels Scientific Fraud in the U.S.
In response to the onslaught of fraudulent scholarship, journals are bolstering their efforts against paper mills. A Wiley spokesperson told RCI it has developed AI-powered detection systems to intercept suspect papers…
Science Magazine Unfairly Attacks the Journal of the Academy of Public Health
Only two days after the Journal of the Academy of Public Health’s official launch, Science Magazine criticised it in a news item. A scientist I had recommended as a member…
Could Grok-Review Replace Peer-Review?
This article introduces the idea that instead of (or as well as) peer-review, scientific papers could be reviewed by Grok, Elon Musk’s AI product. Well, maybe that’s not a new…
The errors and misstatements in “Climate Denialism”
By Andy May The featured image is by Josh, used with permission. There are 20 clearly false statements and three additional problematic statements in Tinus Pulles’ “Climate Denialism.” Most of…
Peer reviewed skepticism
A fine skeptical journal article waded through green pal review. Wonder of wonders!
Patrick Brown: The Social Feedback Loops Constraining Climate Science
The highest-profile research is heavily influenced by cultural forces and career incentives that are not necessarily aligned with the dispassionate pursuit of truth.
Science Proves Isaac Newton Doesn’t Even Break Into Top 8,000 All Time Greatest Scientists
These findings provide conclusive evidence that citations can be bought in bulk, and highlight the need to look beyond citation counts.
The Entire Push To Halt New Natural Gas Exports Traces Back To One Ivy League Prof And His Shaky Study
“First, you allege a problem exists without any scientific basis. Then, you identify a ‘study’ with findings you like that can be used to form a basis for policy advocacy,…
X Users Didn’t Like a Paper’s Tone and Findings, So They Got It Rejected
At Frontiers in Psychology, it seems that users on X are now part of the peer review process.
Climate Change Roundtable 79: The Failure of Peer Review in Climate Science 1 pm Eastern Time.
This episode of Climate Change Roundtable titled, “The failure of peer review: Climate is Beholden to Bullying and Bad Decisions” delves into the shadowy and competitive world of climate journal…
Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game: A Deep Dive into the Academic Publishing Business
Brown makes it difficult to ignore the decades worth of abundant observations that mainstream climate change science is not just politicized, it is big business. And elite journals are in…
The Rise and Fall of Peer Review
For the last 60 years or so, science has been running an experiment on itself.
Hindawi and Wiley to Retract over 500 Papers Linked to Peer Review Rings
It is increasingly apparent to all involved in safeguarding and investigating issues of research integrity that closing rings down at one publisher can simply move the problem to others. We…
Peer Reviewed Science Journal Report: ‘Electric Utility Industry’s Role in Promoting Climate Denial, Doubt, And Delay
If I had been permitted to fact-check review this paper, I would have barred it for publication because it contains a minimum of six major errors
The Absurdity of Peer Review
Does it catch fraud or manipulations of data? No, patently not: peer reviewers are not omniscient, so they cannot divine made-up data, nor can they check all the outputs of…
Resplandy et al. Part 5: Final outcome
From Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on September 25, 2019 by niclewis | 24 Comments By Nic Lewis The editors of Nature have retracted the Resplandy et al. paper.…
The Curious Case of the Southern Ocean and the Peer-Reviewed Journal
By Mike Jonas The Paper What seems like a very long time ago, I downloaded surface temperature data for the Southern Oceans to see if I could find, and learn…
HUGE pushback on science paywalls – University of California cancels Elsevier subscription
Breaking: UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for open access to publicly funded research Library Communications February 28, 2019 TO: The UC Berkeley academic community FROM: Paul Alivisatos, Executive…
Scientific sting operation shows how fake science garbage gets published in peer-reviewed journals
Long-time WUWT reader “Latitude” writes: Academic journals are caught up in massive hoax involving 20 FAKE papers on ‘dog rape culture’, ‘a conceptual penis’ and re-printing a version of MEIN…
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