Comments on Soul Physics: Improving the Peer Review Process

There's been a cool proposal floating around, ...

2010-04-06T15:17:21.030-04:00

There's been a cool proposal floating around, that for scientific studies, the introduction and methods section should be submitted and pass review *before* the results are in. Some people there there is a strong bias towards positive results in the literature, meaning that either papers with (useful!) negative results are rejected, or results are cherry-picked to support hypotheses. Presumably, these problems should be avoided.

You want them to be printed or you want t...

2010-04-04T15:01:57.475-04:00

You want them to be printed or you want them to be read? I just don't see what purpose the former could possibly serve if the latter is what's at stake.

Thanks for the link. I disagree on stopping printi...

2010-04-04T12:21:21.726-04:00

Thanks for the link. I disagree on stopping printing paper-copies of journals. I submit my papers for publication because I want them to be printed.