Weekend reads: Faith-based peer review; lab bloopers; post-publication peer review etiquette

The week at Retraction Watch featured a lawsuit over the authorship of a paper, and a look at when exactly a study should be retracted. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: “Peer review is faith-, not evidence-based; ineffective; a lottery; slow; expensive; wasteful; ineffective; easily abused; biased; doesn’t detect fraud; irrelevant,” former BMJ editor in chief (and current Center for Scientific Integrity … Continue reading Weekend reads: Faith-based peer review; lab bloopers; post-publication peer review etiquette