Feeding the Propaganda of Anti-Tech Activists – WSJ.com
Peter Berkowitz is right to condemn abuses in the peer-review process (“Climategate Was an Academic Disaster Waiting to Happen,” op-ed, March 13 ), many of which reflect the biases of both articles’ referees and journal editors. It is not uncommon to find egregiously, obviously flawed articles in prominent international scientific publications. As in climategate, if the articles have policy implications, misinformation is quickly and widely propagated and feeds the propagandizing by opportunistic, antitechnology activists.
Some of the worst of these flawed papers have conveyed false alarms about the safety of gene-spliced (or “genetically engineered”) plants, which subsequently have been extensively reported in the popular press….continues at link
