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Nature 414, 393-394 (22 November 2001) | doi:10.1038/35106722

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The perils of peer review

Rustum Roy1 & James R. Ashburn2

  1. The Pennsylvania State University, 102 Materials Research Laboratory, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
  2. Elmco, 60 Technology Drive, Building 1, Suite N, Huntsville, Alabama 35805, USA

Your News feature "Peers under pressure" (Nature 413, 102–4; 2001) on the hoary old chestnut of peer review reinforces my decades-old comparison of this ritual to the Latin mass. Obviously many (Protestant?