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(1) I refer you to this quote :

"Not only does the mechanism of peer review fail to protect us from
disasters, in a certain way it guarantees mediocrity: the genius has
no peer. And to make matters worse, his publication record does not
reflect his work either. At the time it is done, truly original work
—which, in the scientific establishment, is as welcome as unwanted
baby— is very hard to publish as it takes at least another ten years
for the appropriate journal to be founded. (I sooner blame someone for
his publication list being too long than being too short.)"
Source: Edsger W. Dijkstra, EWD1018, 1987.


(2) Publishing houses have mainly a "curation" function that is, they
should archive material. Make sure it remains available. Support
auxiliary functions. And so on.

Most papers don't need copy editing because they are not that
important. However, we should enable revision to publish work. For
example, we could copy edit documents when it becomes clear that they
are going to be important.

When an author (or a "friend") discovers a fault in a paper that can
be fixed, we should allow the correction. This is particularly
important for influential papers that are often widely distributed
with their (often minor) flaws because there is no way to improve
them.

(4) I really like the idea of "articles about articles". Philosophers
routinely engage in this sort of "open debate" but science has so far
resisted this model.

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Enlightenment?
Posted by Dr. Dov Henis on 09 Apr 2012 03:11:48 PM GMT

Enlightenment?

 

Theories, Blind men-Elephant And Peer-Review

 

A. Theory, the first of several definitions:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/theory

The analysis of a set of facts in their relation to one another.

 

B. Enlightenment, a philosophical movement of the 18th century, characterized by belief in the power of human reason and by innovations in political, religious, and educational doctrine.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/enlightenment

 

C. The tale re the blind men and elephant:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant

 

D. Peer-review:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peer%20review

A process by which something proposed (as for research or publication) is evaluated by a group of experts in the appropriate field.

 

E. AAAS peer-review:

http://universe-life.com/2011/01/25/hope-for-2011-science/

http://universe-life.com/2011/06/11/for-a-scientism-culture/

 

F. What kind of enlightenment can re-evolve in a counter-enlightenment culture, in which scientific theories postulated by “blind men” are selectively “certified”  or “rejected” by an omnipotent blind-men trade-union-association?

 

Dov Henis (comments from 22nd century)

http://universe-life.com/2011/12/13/21st-century-science-whence-and-whither/

http://universe-life.com/2012/02/03/universe-energy-mass-life-compilation/

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Who Suppresses Science Creativity
Posted by Dr. Dov Henis on 11 May 2012 10:02:04 AM GMT

Who Suppresses Creativity?

Academia Suppresses Creativity?

 

Again and again, ad absurdum:

Since the 1920s Science is suppressed by a Technology Culture, tightly supervised by a religious old style trade union , AAAS…

 

USA Science? Re-Comprehend Origins And Essence

 

Higgs Particle? Dark Energy/Matter? Epigenetics?  All  YOK!

 

Earth-life is just another, self-replicating, mass format.

 

All mass formats follow natural selection, i.e. intake of energy or their energy taken in by other mass formats.

 

Evolution Is The Quantum Mechanics Of Natural Selection.

 

Quantum mechanics are mechanisms, possible or probable or actual mechanisms of natural selection.

 

Life’s  Evolution is the quantum mechanics of biology.

 

Every  evolution, of all disciplines, is the quantum mechanics of the discipline’s natural selection.

 

See:

Update Concepts-Comprehension…
http://universe-life.com/2011/12/13/21st-century-science-whence-and-whither/ 

Earth life genesis from aromaticity-H bonding

http://universe-life.com/2011/09/30/earthlife-genesis-from-aromaticityh-bonding/

Universe-Energy-Mass-Life Compilation

http://universe-life.com/2012/02/03/universe-energy-mass-life-compilation/

Seed of human-chimp genome diversity

http://universe-life.com/2011/07/10/seed-of-human-chimp-genomes-diversity/

 

Dov Henis

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