Dear all:

I may get skewered myself for this, but when I was working on my doctorate, the Lancet 
was considered one of the least reliable of the so-called "peer-reviewed" journals.  They 
often put articles out very quickly and when we were feeling lazy, we would pick a Lancet 
article for our grueling "506 seminar".  These seminars were a mandatorily attended 
seminar for all nutrition professors and graduate students.  We had to pick one article and 
thoroughly critique it in front of this audience.  We were then anonymously critiqued by 
other students and were explicitly critiqued by our professors in a very grueling fashion.  
The Lancet articles were easy because there were so many problems that we could easily 
identify.  The unwritten rule was that they determined whether or not you were of PhD 
quality by these seminars.  

We were all terrified of these seminars, but they did the job of honing our analytic skills.

Best, Susan

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