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Thursday, July 26, 2007 12:00 AM

Academic reputation, alien news service, slain by World Wide Web

What do the Weekly World News and the academic tradition of peer review have in common? The Internet is their mortal enemy
Andrew Leonard

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  • Friday, July 27, 2007 09:39 AM

    peer review of Salon articles

    For non-technical stuff, that is to say, for opinions, the peer review in the form of these letters is a great educumacational tool. I often nod along with a Salon article only to have the very different POVs from the letter-writers broaden my own view of things. The internet as a whole, with its spectrum of opinions, theoretically provides a vast informal peer review of practically everything. Whether the chaff will drown out the wheat is a bit of a worry... But twas ever thus...

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