On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, James Annan wrote:
> William M Connolley wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, James Annan wrote:
>>> I meant the open publishing - or more specifically, open review. This way,
>>> pretty much anything can get an airing but if it's dross you can see it get
>>> ripped to shreds by the reviewers.
>>
>> Have you seen this happen?
>
> Well I wouldn't like to take sides as to who is wrong and who is right
> (ie I'm not identifying them as "dross"), but a couple of hockey-stick
> related papers on Climate of the Past certainly attracted lengthy and
> rather heated debate recently.

Not related to this: http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/cp/cp_news.pdf ?

Which paper, btw... I recall somesuch but not the authors. And I wish you did 
have a nice example of dross... in fact there is a pre-publication editorial 
phase I think, so true dross would never get its chance

-w.

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