Political Economist Robert Higgs examines the global warming crowd's favorite buzz phrase, "peer review," to see just what it means...The system is a crap shoot. Personal vendettas, ideological conflicts, professional jealousies, methodological disagreements, sheer self-promotion and a great deal of plain incompetence and irresponsibility are no strangers to the scientific world; indeed, that world is rife with these all-too-human attributes. In no event can peer review ensure that research is correct in its procedures or its conclusions...
Here is a brief summary of Dr. Higg's article (with excerpts and comments by Noel Sheppard) over on NewsBusters while the original article is here. And a hat tip to Junk Science for pointing the way to both. (The cartoon is by Nick D. Kim.)
