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Editorial: Lift the veil of secrecy over peer review
ALL’S fair in love and war, they say, but science is supposed to obey more noble ideals. New findings are submitted for publication, the studies are farmed out to experts for objective “peer review” and the best research appears promptly in the most prestigious journals.
Some stem cell biologists are crying foul, however. Last year, 14 researchers in this notoriously competitive field complaining of “unreasonable or obstructive reviews”. The result, they claimed, is…
