> The above tacitly assumes that one researcher would risk his own reputation
> by letting something slide in his review of another's work for publication.
> Does that sound plausible?
>

That more than half of medical studies are not reproducible says that the
peer review process is broken, mostly because the not reproducible studies
are used as references. So it is bad confirming bad.


> The biggest problem
> with peer review is that it's very hard to find anything better.  So hard,
> that no one has found anything better to date.  It's a lot like democracy
> in
> that way.
>

Post the study on the internet for review. We do a fair to middling job
right here as you describe below.


> On a less efficient level, beekeepers tend to engage in post-publication
> review themselves.  No one mentions things like FGMO fogging or powdered
> sugar dusting any more, as these tactics were both initially shown
> infective
> in controlled studies.
>

Actually, there was a "controlled" study that showed it worked. I was very
vocal, which is unusual for me, saying the FGMO did not work so got
feedback from the participants that confirmed the "study" was not reporting
the truth but rigged to show what the proponents of FGMO wanted to show.
Because of my outspokenness, I was threatened with a lawsuit. Still have
the email. And FGMO was not "initially" proved ineffective by controlled
studies. The confirmation came form all the "uncontrolled" actual tests by
several of us on this list.

But there were those who disagreed with us and they left in a huff and
started BeeSource to continue the push for FGMO. That, BTW, was the best
thing to happen to this list. Arron tightened up the list and it became
"informed" and much more scientific. If you check BeeSource FGMO is still
around as is powdered sugar dusting. Not too informed or scientific.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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