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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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The list is quite long Harry, it is many years that I am operative and changed field a number of times. I am still active and known.
"lobbying" is certainly not to conform to particular viewpoints, except those related to personal vanity, that is one of the worst plague of our profession.
Rather to favor friends of friends in exchange of past and future favors.
As you did so well with the Tacitus example in that other thread, it will not escape to your attention the complex system of evaluation of citation and impact factors, to give credibility to the publications and the efforts in that direction.
Astronomy eh. Many years back I almost switched to astrophysics ...
So you know that the main flaw of Maxwell equations is that they imply stationarity. Everybody knows it and nobody bothers.
Ad astra per aspra