Don't hate the player, hate the game
Don't hate the player, hate the game On Patrick Brown, Science Wars, and the Academic Publishing Business JESSICA WEINKLE From the internet In a remarkable essay at The Free Press , Patrick Brown, a researcher at The Breakthrough Institute, gave the world a lesson on how the sausage is made in headline stirring climate change science. Start the research with the publication outlet end in mind. The editorial practices of elite academic journals such as Nature , matter for how society understands the state of knowledge and how we relate to the world. On occasion matters arise that bring attention to the fraught activity of gatekeeping at the journal and its broader family of journals. For instance, in the late 1980’s, Nature , published a research article under the condition that the journal could send investigators to the lab to review the researchers’ methods. The investigating team included the journal’s editor, a peer- reviewer with a negative opinion of the work, an