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* Dear Sir,<br>We ([[w:Nathan Rosen|Mr. Rosen]] and I) had sent you our manuscript for publication and had not authorized you to show it to specialists before it is printed. I see no reason to address the in any case erroneous comments of your anonymous expert. On the basis of this incident I prefer to publish the paper elsewhere.<br>Respectfully, |
* Dear Sir,<br>We ([[w:Nathan Rosen|Mr. Rosen]] and I) had sent you our manuscript for publication and had not authorized you to show it to specialists before it is printed. I see no reason to address the in any case erroneous comments of your anonymous expert. On the basis of this incident I prefer to publish the paper elsewhere.<br>Respectfully, |
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** [[Albert Einstein]], letter to ''[[w:Physical Review|Physical Review]]'' (1936) |
** [[Albert Einstein]], letter to ''[[w:Physical Review|Physical Review]]'' (1936) |
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* ... we all know the problems of the peer review system, and nothing better has been found. |
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** [[w:David Schlessinger (geneticist)|David Schlessinger]], {{cite web|title=transcript of recorded interview with David Schlessinger|date=March 2018|website=National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI, genome.gov)|url=https://www.genome.gov/sites/default/files/media/files/2019-05/david_schlessinger_transcript.pdf}} p. 14 |
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* An authority isn't a person or institution who is always right – ain't no such animal. An authority is a person or institution who has a process for lowering the likelihood that they are wrong to acceptably low levels. [...] And this is what I think is really worth celebrating as Wikipedia begins its second decade. It took one of the best ideas of the last 500 years – peer review – and expanded its field of operation so dramatically that it changed the way authority is configured. |
* An authority isn't a person or institution who is always right – ain't no such animal. An authority is a person or institution who has a process for lowering the likelihood that they are wrong to acceptably low levels. [...] And this is what I think is really worth celebrating as Wikipedia begins its second decade. It took one of the best ideas of the last 500 years – peer review – and expanded its field of operation so dramatically that it changed the way authority is configured. |
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Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people of similar competence to the producers of the work (peers).
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- Have you ever read a Michael Crichton novel, or seen one of his movies, in which the hubristic scientist actually paused and declared: "Hey, science shouldn't be done in shadows. If I keep this new thing secret I'll probably do something gruesomely stupid. But if I discuss this innovation with hundreds of peers, some of them will catch my mistakes and things won't get out of hand. Nobody will die.
- David Brin [1]
- Dear Sir,
We (Mr. Rosen and I) had sent you our manuscript for publication and had not authorized you to show it to specialists before it is printed. I see no reason to address the in any case erroneous comments of your anonymous expert. On the basis of this incident I prefer to publish the paper elsewhere.
Respectfully,- Albert Einstein, letter to Physical Review (1936)
- ... we all know the problems of the peer review system, and nothing better has been found.
- David Schlessinger, transcript of recorded interview with David Schlessinger. National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI, genome.gov) (March 2018). p. 14
- An authority isn't a person or institution who is always right – ain't no such animal. An authority is a person or institution who has a process for lowering the likelihood that they are wrong to acceptably low levels. [...] And this is what I think is really worth celebrating as Wikipedia begins its second decade. It took one of the best ideas of the last 500 years – peer review – and expanded its field of operation so dramatically that it changed the way authority is configured.
- Clay Shirky, "All-Star Thinkers on Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary", The Atlantic, 13 January 2011.
