So the things are very nasty if mainstream peer review will be tried. Today's Gapingvoid.art drawing says: "Anyone who tries to please the mainstream, deserves everything they get” A good, solid, secular miracle could help...or the commercial generator
Peter Scientists can only hope On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
