Re: Peer review and AIDS research

I am deafened by the response to Keith's post.

Is it totally irrelevant or what?

Michael

----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Miller" <kbmill@ksu.edu>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 11:38 PM
Subject: Peer review and AIDS research

> I thought that there might be interest in a news item in the November
> 20 issue of Nature. It is entitled "Medical journal under attack as
> dissenters seize AIDS platform" (Nature, vol 426, p. 215). It involves
> an electronic fast-track unreviewed publication outlet of the British
> Medical Journal. Several people who deny that HIV causes AIDS have
> used this forum as a means of promoting their views posting dozens of
> unreviewed articles. These publications deny that AIDS is contagious,
> that AIDS is sexually transmitted, that HIV causes AIDS, that anti-HIV
> drugs are effective, and that AIDS is responsible for the high
> mortalities in Africa.
>
> AIDS researchers are concerned that these articles appearing on the
> website of a respected science journal will mislead policy makers and
> the public into thinking that a real controversy exists over the above
> issues.
>
> I find this very reminiscent of the efforts of some ID advocates to
> influence the public and policy makers without first establishing the
> validity of their arguments through standard peer-reviewed channels.
> It is also significant, I believe, that Phil Johnson is a supporter of
> the HIV dissenters.
>
> Keith
>
> Keith B. Miller
> Research Assistant Professor
> Dept of Geology, Kansas State University
> Manhattan, KS 66506-3201
> 785-532-2250
> http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~kbmill/
>
>
>
Received on Thu Dec 11 13:03:28 2003