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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 17:42 |
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"If you think ‘peer review’ is the only legitimate system, one wonders why you bother to read blogs and alternative opinions?"
the key word here is "opinion" i read blogs and the like for opinion, but when it comes to the complex world of scientific evidence, that's when i rely on peer review. option doesn't, and cannot, cut the mustard there.
you refer as vaccination as "contraversial" but really, is it? yes, people debate it on forums and letter pages, they throw around anecdones and homemade studies, but in terms of legitimate research (which is legitimised by a process of being intependant assessed by a group of academic peers with the aim of hightlighting any flaws accidental or otherwise) there is no contrvercy.
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