Peter Gluck <[email protected]> wrote: It is also possible the delay is caused by the peer review process > as Rossi alludes to. One of my friends- reputed professor at Budapest says > he will believe CF is real when a ppaer about it will be published > in the NATURE journal- the process of review there is a guarantee of the > quality and validity of the paper and the research. >
This attitude is widespread. Mike Melich asked someone at the DoE: "Why have you put the editor of Nature in charge of U.S. energy policy?" The person was unhappy with the question. There is no chance *Nature* or *Science* will publish a paper about cold fusion. If the Swedes are waiting for this to happen, they will wait forever. Even a second-tier journal make take years to peer-review a paper. Mike McKubre told me it took several years for his *J. Electroanal. Chem.* paper to pass peer review. > For a peer reviewer > at a high rank journal is a high risk, danger for reputation to say YES > to such a dubious subject so the reviewers verify and ask and verify again. > Yes. I have seen the comments from reviewers. Some were reasonable, but many were written by people grasping at straws. They were trying to think up ways to prevent publication. They resemble the 2004 DoE cold fusion reviewer's remarks, which were 9/10th baloney. See: http://lenr-canr.org/wordpress/?page_id=455 - Jed
