Subject: Re: CCL:Ahem, shouldn't we do something about it?

From: phil stortz <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:07:19 -0600

there is always some garbage, particularly on the web.  i'd rather read
other opinions/research results and decide for myself.  some garbage
even gets through peer review.  there could still be a mechanism
to block papers from people who consistently post garbage, and
who don't have any credentials.  it would also be nice to have
a brief summary of the authors credentials, even if not
verified.  it's been my experience that there are allot
of politics involved with most of the science journals.

Christoph van Wüllen wrote:
> 
> As to the discussion of 'online publishing', my opinion is that if the
contributions
> are not peer-reviewd (using the same quality standards as in the printed journals),
> there is always the risk that there will be some garbage among the contributions.
In this
> case, not too many scientist will browse the contents.
-- 
"..a cynic is just a romantic who got mugged watching sausage being made last night" Klima and the
Belmonts ("negations," 1964)