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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Johanna Nichols
wrote:<BR>Self-publishing bypasses peer review, and peer review is a much
more<BR>important function of journal publication than boosting careers
is. Peer<BR>review is so essential to distinguishing science from
pseudoscience that I<BR>don't think it should be bypassed, at least not very
often.<BR>Johanna Nichols = <BR>Is Peer reviewing so essential? Would Bruno's,
Galileo's, Copernicus', Einstein's theories have been published, if they had
been peer reviewed? Peer reviewing is good for trivial or average books and
articles without new scientific information. Don't you think so? How many
articles of young linguists which are not trivial are rejected by journals? All?
I wouldn't be surprised. Be well, Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk
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