Abolish peer review

http://mediatheoryjournal.org/mieke-bal-lets-abolish-the-peer-review-system/

Sokal redux

"Science reporter spoofs hundreds of open access journals with fake papers"

Alpha centaurius rex

"Could 'advanced' dinosaurs rule other planets?"

An implication from this work is that elsewhere in the universe there could be life forms based on D amino acids and L sugars, depending on the chirality of circular polarized light in that sector of the universe or whatever other process operated to favor the La-methyl amino acids in the meteorites that have landed on Earth. Such life forms could well be advanced versions of dinosaurs, if mammals did not have the good fortune to have the dinosaurs wiped out by an asteroidal collision, as on Earth. (source)

Dinosauroid redux?

Who says you cannot get published?

"Who says you cannot get published?" (pdf)

Sokal affair (original paper)

"When Zombies Attack!"

BTW, secularists often claim Christians can't get published in peer-reviewed journals as if it were a damning indictment.

Not so mighty pen

Most people are aware of debilitating if not life-threatening diseases such as cancer and influenza. But one disease which is often overlooked by both the public as well as medical science is writer's block. As such, I'd like to bring to people's attention the following seminal studies on writer's block published in these reputable scientific journals:

• The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of Writer's Block
  
• The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of Writer's Block: A Replication
  
• The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of Writer's Block: A Review of the Literature

Evidence based medicine

The following is from "Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials":

As with many interventions intended to prevent ill health, the effectiveness of parachutes has not been subjected to rigorous evaluation by using randomised controlled trials. Advocates of evidence based medicine have criticised the adoption of interventions evaluated by using only observational data. We think that everyone might benefit if the most radical protagonists of evidence based medicine organised and participated in a double blind, randomised, placebo controlled, crossover trial of the parachute.