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Originally Posted by HarryT
Having been involved in the peer review process, both as an author and as a reviewer, in my field at least (astronomy) I was certainly not aware of any "lobbying" to conform to particular viewpoints.
Do you have any specific examples in mind, beppe?
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I'd love to hear them as well.
Certainly in the popular/public/news media there is spin and trickery etc. But there have been very few cases of outright bias or fraud in the peer-reviewed journals and the few times it has happened it has been revealed and dealt swiftly.
Maybe he is referring to this sort of thing:
http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/54893/
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~wstarbuc/Writing/Prejud.htm
and a whole raft of google results:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=...=1&oi=scholart