Peer review is at the heart of the processes of not just medical journals but of all of science. It is the method by which grants are allocated, papers published, academics promoted, and Nobel prizes won. Yet it is hard to define. It has until recently been unstudied. And its defects are easier to spot than its attributes. Yet it shows no sign of going away. Famously, it's compared with democracy: a system filled with problems but the smallest amount worst we've . When something is peer reviewed it's in some sense blessed. Even journalists recognize this. When the BMJ published a highly controversial paper that argued that a replacement ‘disease’, female sexual dysfunction, was in some ways being created by pharmaceutical companies, a friend who is a journalist was very excited—not least because reporting it gave him an opportunity to urge sex onto the front page of a highly respectable but somewhat priggish newspaper (the Financial Times). ‘But,’ the news editor wanted to understand , ‘was this paper peer reviewed?’. The implication was that if it had been it had been ok for the front page and if it had not been it had been not. Well, had it been? I had read it far more carefully than I read many papers and had asked the author, who happened to be a journalist, to revise the paper and produce more evidence. But this wasn't referee, albeit i used to be a peer of the author and had reviewed the paper. Or was it?
Research Article: Cardiovascular Diseases & Diagnosis
Research Article: Cardiovascular Diseases & Diagnosis
Case Report: Cardiovascular Diseases & Diagnosis
Case Report: Cardiovascular Diseases & Diagnosis
Case Report: Cardiovascular Diseases & Diagnosis
Case Report: Cardiovascular Diseases & Diagnosis
Short Communication: Cardiovascular Diseases & Diagnosis
Short Communication: Cardiovascular Diseases & Diagnosis
Case Report: Cardiovascular Diseases & Diagnosis
Case Report: Cardiovascular Diseases & Diagnosis
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