dear Chris, Rosan and all...
I think that there is a tendency in discussions to turn into
dichotomies, unless we carefully try to avoid them.
i think that Rosan is right in pointing out that there are areas in
our life where peer review does not deliver what it is supposed to do
- and we should think about what to do with that problem.
equally I completely agree with Chris, that some sort of peer review
is also becoming even more important than before in many areas of
life.
I think these positions (and many others expressed in our polylogue
about the topic lately) are compatible and complementary. And the
design challenge is in bringing these together in balanced, context
sensitive designs for future situations.
kh
At 09:33 +0000 4.3.2004, Rust, Chris wrote:
>So I can see a world in which peer review becomes more, rather than
>less significant, but now that the monopoly of the printing
>press is broken, peer-reviewed publication will be balanced by an
>increasing amount of material that has not (yet) been reviewed
>and we will all have to become much more subtle in how we use and
>interpret it. And a good thing too.
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