Author: Kate

What Would We Do Without Peer Review?

Climate Cult 18 Comments

Awkward.

The present investigation was an attempt to study the peer-review process directly, in the natural setting of actual journal referee evaluations of submitted manuscripts. As test materials we selected 12 already published research articles by investigators from prestigious and highly productive American psychology departments, one article from each of 12 highly regarded and widely read American psychology journals with high rejection rates (80%) and nonblind refereeing practices.
With fictitious names and institutions substituted for the original ones (e.g., Tri-Valley Center for Human Potential), the altered manuscripts were formally resubmitted to the journals that had originally refereed and published them 18 to 32 months earlier. Of the sample of 38 editors and reviewers, only three (8%) detected the resubmissions. This result allowed nine of the 12 articles to continue through the review process to receive an actual evaluation: eight of the nine were rejected. Sixteen of the 18 referees (89%) recommended against publication and the editors concurred. The grounds for rejection were in many cases described as “serious methodological flaws.”

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“When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal”

Forward! Media 17 Comments

Townhall;

The Associated Press scandal just keeps getting worse, and we haven’t even started yet. AP CEO Gary Pruitt informed staffers Wednesday that the Department of Justice monitored, not one, not twenty, but “thousands and thousands” of phone calls made by reporters and editors.


More: Associated Press and New York Times refuse Holder invite to “off the record” meeting with Washington bureau chiefs.

“Now that [Assad] has already crossed all of these red lines…”

Radioactive Religion Of Submission Terrorism 17 Comments

Caroline Glick;

Since the civil war began two years ago, Assad’s complete dependence on Iran and Hezbollah – as well as on Russia – has been exposed for all to see. There is little doubt that whatever checks the US was able to exert against him before the civil war began no longer exist. And if he survives in power, he will be completely indifferent to US pressure and so will behave far more violently than he did before the war began.
And yet for all Assad’s horrific behavior and the reasonable presumption that his actions will only become more violent and dangerous with each additional day he remains in power, the most telling aspect of the Syrian civil war is that Israel, the US and Europe are incapable of deciding whether he is better or worse than the alternatives.

And much, much more. Read the whole thing.
h/t Adrian

Renegade Regulator

CSA 17 Comments

The RestoreCSA campaign

… has been contacted by several entities to advise that, like P.S. Knight Co., they are being targeted by the Canadian Standards Association (“CSA”) for the furnishment of what we consider protection payments.
As with P.S. Knight Co., a number of entities have been approached by CSA for payment of money in exchange for assurances that CSA will not impede their operations. These demands for payment are typically referred to as royalty payments, licensing fees, or certification or insurance fees. Regarding the instances that RestoreCSA has been advised of, the basis for CSA payment demand is CSA’s claimed ownership of portions of Canadian law.
The RestoreCSA campaign is working with the federal Government to clarify the status of CSA as being either a federal regulatory entity or a private company and, if the former, whether CSA is permitted to commercially compete within the market that it is regulating and, if the latter, whether a private company can own public law.

The Canadian Standards Association owns 35 offices “worldwide”? More detail in this interview with Ezra Levant.

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