[X] My Assistant

[belleraphon1]

All....

This is from Mike Brown's Planets blog. Is was pointed out to the cassinihuygens yahoo group by Sean Mac.

Fog at Titan's south pole .......

http://www.mikebrownsplanets.com/2009/08/f...eer-review.html

Paper describing the results and an invitation from Mike brown...
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/papers/ps/fog_pp.pdf

"Peer review, as implemented in the current world of over-stressed astronomers, has some serious flaws, though."

"There has been much talk recently about all of this, and even some interesting experiments done by scientific journals. I thought I would try an experiment of my own here. It goes like this: feel free to provide a review of my paper!"

I thought there are some folks on this forum that would love to jump on this invitation!!!!

Go for it.

Craig

[DFortes]

Every now and again you'll have a paper where one of the reviewers just doesn't send any comments back, and the editor has to rely on one of the referees. I imagine in my case, the errant reviewer has died laughing, or choked on his or her own spleen. Reading my work can be a bit like having Vogon poetry read to you... and that's *me* saying that...
And then there are the journals that ask for six or nine (yes, nine) reviewers names. I suppose the man / woman who makes tea in the editorial office gets to pick names out of a hat.

But reviewing is a bit farcical sometimes. If you ever read stuff that gets published and think, 'this is drivel' you should see some of it at the review stage.