The peer review drugs don’t work
A process at the heart of science is based on faith rather than evidence, says Richard Smith, and vested interests keep it in place
A process at the heart of science is based on faith rather than evidence, says Richard Smith, and vested interests keep it in place
Unite chief executive’s 2019 deal described as ‘galling’ while student renters’ struggles in pandemic spark calls for housing reforms
Unite Students’ executive pay deals prompt union criticism of ‘massive rises funded by public money and student debt’
The BBC presenter and writer talks about how women should ‘demand equal pay’ and suggests a novel windfall tax to help fund HE
Pay deals in student accommodation bring claims ‘huge salaries are being funded by public money and student debt’
We write as senior academics to express our concern about the proposal from Universities UK to end guaranteed pension payments in the Universities Superannuation Scheme (“UUK reforms ‘will cut USS...
Unrealistic expectations of would-be students revealed by major survey
Richard Smith says that when he was editor of the British Medical Journal, he deliberately inserted eight errors into a paper and sent it to 300 reviewers. None of them spotted more than five errors...
Victoria Bateman identifies economics as sexist (“Is economics a sexist science?”, Opinion, 15 September). That may be true of mainstream economics, but it is certainly not true of the field that we...
Research Integrity and Peer Review will look at every stage of the scientific process, and could even change its own review system depending on what it finds
Trisha Greenhalgh disagrees with my opinion that pre-publication peer review is a waste of time (“Peer review not yet sunk”, Letters, 4 June). Her disagreement, however, is based on a small technical...
In thinking about the merits or otherwise of peer review (“Slay peer review ‘sacred cow’, says former BMJ chief”, 21 April), I can say that in my own specialist field, I’ve had some very good...
Students are planning to vote in huge numbers in the general election, according to a survey, despite many lacking faith that doing so will help improve their lives.
Peer review may not spot fraud – so universities need to be vigilant in tackling any wrongdoing among their staff