{"id":30428,"date":"2015-06-02T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=30428"},"modified":"2015-06-02T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T18:27:00","slug":"misunderstanding-peer-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/06\/misunderstanding-peer-review.html","title":{"rendered":"Misunderstanding Peer Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/evolvingcreation.com\/peer-review-its-not-what-you-think-it-is\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dudley Chapman has written a really helpful blog post<\/a>, addressing a popular misunderstanding about peer review \u2013 and thus also the way some have misunderstood\u00a0the significance of retractions and other such things that have been in the news lately. <a href=\"http:\/\/evolvingcreation.com\/peer-review-its-not-what-you-think-it-is\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click through<\/a> to read it.<\/p>\n<p>Of related interest, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/01\/business\/beyond-publish-or-perish-scientific-papers-look-to-make-splash.html?_r=0\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>New York Times<\/em> just featured an article<\/a> about the effect of scholars seeking to make an impact on the public and not just get their work in academic journals.<\/p>\n<p>See also this image, illustrating the point, which was shared by Science &amp; Scripture on Facebook:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-30448\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/05\/How-Peer-Review-Actually-Works.png\" alt=\"How Peer Review Actually Works\" width=\"488\" height=\"366\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dudley Chapman has written a really helpful blog post, addressing a popular misunderstanding about peer review \u2013 and thus also the way some have misunderstood\u00a0the significance of retractions and other such things that have been in the news lately. 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Of related interest, the New York Times just featured an article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":30448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,78,85],"tags":[315,8885,10249,10282,10886],"class_list":["post-30428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-information-literacy","category-pseudoscience","category-science","tag-academia","tag-peer-review","tag-research","tag-retraction","tag-science"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Misunderstanding Peer Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dudley Chapman has written a really helpful blog post, addressing a popular misunderstanding about peer review - and thus also the way some have\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/06\/misunderstanding-peer-review.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Misunderstanding Peer Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dudley Chapman has written a really helpful blog post, addressing a popular misunderstanding about peer review - and thus also the way some have\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/06\/misunderstanding-peer-review.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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