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Another Bentham Editor Resigns

A W Smith said:
Bentham does not peer review. They just cash checks for $800.00 and publish. Is this so difficult for you to understand Steve-0?
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I think a few people in this thread need to be a little more careful here. This resignation, even taken with the previous resignation, is not an indication that absolutely no peer review goes on at Bentham.
 
Cl1mh4224rd said:
I think a few people in this thread need to be a little more careful here. This resignation, even taken with the previous resignation, is not an indication that absolutely no peer review goes on at Bentham.
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I think the page of randomly generated nonsense getting approved for publication does that.

EDIT: Ok, snarky pithy omments aside. I'm sure that Bentham papers occasionally do get reviewed. But their overall credibility has gotta be on life support if not destroyed completely by now.
 
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So does three out of three editors-in-chief being totally out of the loop.

This issue is settled, seriously. If there happens to be some other Bentham journal that does some kind of respectable peer review, it's an accident.
 
R.Mackey said:
So does three out of three editors-in-chief being totally out of the loop.

This issue is settled, seriously. If there happens to be some other Bentham journal that does some kind of respectable peer review, it's an accident.
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It will be interesting to see if this gets enough play to pressure Bentham (which is much larger then its open access line) into dumping the open access line of journals altogether.

TAM:)
 
Sword_Of_Truth said:
EDIT: Ok, snarky pithy omments aside. I'm sure that Bentham papers occasionally do get reviewed. But their overall credibility has gotta be on life support if not destroyed completely by now.
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I agree. These resignations do cast serious doubt on the credibility of Bentham and whether or not any of the papers they've published have been properly peer reviewed, or peer reviewed at all. I was just noticing that some people had taken these "Bentham editors resign over problems with peer review" stories and turned them into "Bentham does no peer review whatsoever", and that's just not supported.

Can't have people on "our side" misrepresenting a situation and using it as ammo against truthers while deriding truthers for doing the same thing. ;)
 
BenBurch said:
If a law court judge takes 1000 bribes or only one, his credibility is ruined, right?
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That doesn't mean every single person who has ever walked through his courtroom should immediately get a "Get out of jail free" card, or an "immediate second trial". The other cases just need to be extremely well scrutinized.
 
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