On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 20:51 -0400, Casey O'Donnell wrote: > He generated rubbish, and editors, hoping to bring new people > into their conversation bit. Too bad, so sad. Alan's fault, or the > editors or the reviewers? Good question. > that a journal prints rubbish is clearly not the fault of the author of the rubbish (especially not when the author does this deliberately, in order to demonstrate that the journal _does_ accept rubbish). otherwise what's the point of having editors and reviewers?
as for bringing new people into a conversation - the purpose of a scientific journal is surely to bring new _ideas_, not new people for the sake of it. many journals do have double-blind peer review, in which case the question of bringing "new people" couldn't even be raised. i wouldn't know if _social text_ uses that form of review. -rishab
