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Posted on: October 9, 2008 5:02 AM, by Chad Orzel
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# 1 | Peter Erwin | October 9, 2008 12:18 PM
Amusingly, the second article you linked to ("The collapse of peer review") misuses "negative feedback" in just the way that the third article deplores...