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Black and White of Peer Review Becoming Grayer
Author(s) -
Gaussoin Roch
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
csa news
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2325-3584
pISSN - 1529-9163
DOI - 10.2134/csa2015-60-8-7
Subject(s) - white (mutation) , citation , computer science , white paper , world wide web , law , political science , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
n my first two columns in CSA News magazine as CSSA president this year, I focused on science literacy. I continue to be fascinated and intimidated by the enormity of delivering science literacy to the masses in a digital world. The internet and accompanying search engines offer great opportunity for delivery of fact-based information and an equal and problematic opportunity for the delivery of pure hogwash (not the word I would use in spoken conversation, but you get the point). The filter, and reasonably so, has been peer-reviewed publications. Au contraire based on John Bohannon’s exposé in Science in 2013 (Who’s Afraid of Peer Review?).