Parliament and peer review

Added by Stephane Goldstein on 31 January 2011 19:23

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The House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee has just announced the launch of an inquiry into peer review, and is inviting evidence on “the operation and effectiveness of the peer review process used to examine and validate scientific results and papers prior to publication”.

It appears this will be a wide-ranging inquiry, and submissions are being invited on all aspects of the peer review process, including perceived strengths and weakness, and possible alternatives. One of the issues on the Committee’s list is the impact of the greater use of online resources on the process. This presumably offers an opportunity to look at developments such as the impact on peer review of new and more open forms of communication between researchers, and also open access.

Curiously, the Committee’s web page does not explicitly mention open access as a factor in the debate. That does not mean that it should not be raised. Indeed, last time that the Committee substantially considered peer review, back in 2004, was in the context of its (in)famous report on Scientific Publications: Free for All? - which, controversially at the time, turned open access into a politically heated issue in the UK. It is instructive to look at what that report had to say about peer review; see in particular paragraphs 204-207, which concluded that “peer review is not an infallible system […] nonetheless we are satisfied that publishers are taking reasonable measures to main high standards of peer review”; paragraphs 132-135, which looked at peer review in relation to institutional repositories; and paragraphs 169-174, on peer review in an author-pays model.

So let’s wait and see how Parliament views developments over the past seven years. In the meantime, written submissions can be made until 10 March.

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I.

 

 Update Comprehension Of Universe/Life Evolution, Of RNA/DNA Mismatch-Relationship

Genome is evolved by-for RNAs, like all other Earth organisms:

THE National Science And Technology Policy ISSUE In The USA (And Therefore Elsewhere…):

 

The early 20th century brief burst of scientific evolution started expiring 90 years ago, at the birth of the “scientists” (what does this mean?) trade-union AAAS. True to the AAAS trade-union interests the scientific evolution has grown into the technology-industrial evolution, with evolved counter-enlightenment, greed culture.

Re Science Education, it’s about WHAT, not about HOW, is taught.

Scientists” tradeunion-politically-controled “science” cannot be advanced/updated regardless of education system…

See the C signature link…

Unravel Some Of Nature’s Complexities, A + B + C

(adnauseam, ad shown where these data-based statements are wrong)

 

A.

UNRAVEL COMPLEXITIES OF GENETICS.

Extend Evolution/Natural Selection Backward To Genes/Genomes, BOTH ARE ORGANISMS.

Again, Correct Some Figments Of Science Imagination

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2SF3CJJM5OU6T27OC4MFQSDYEU/blog/articles/273273?listPage=index&bb=0

 

1. Dark energy and matter YOK. Per E=Total[m(1 + D)] all the energy and matter of the universe are accounted for.

Adopt space-massdistance concept, mass-to-energy reconversion.

2. Higgs Particle YOK. Mass forms below some value of the above D.

3. Galactic clusters formed by conglomeration?

Galactic clusters formed by Big-Bang’s dispersion, evidenced by their Newtonian behaviour including expansion acceleration.

4. The universe expansion is fueled by the mass-to-enrgy reconversion. Eventually, as expansion will slow down, will run out of massfuel, gravity will overcome expansion and initiate empansion back to singularity. The universe is a cyclic array of energy-mass dualism, between all-energy and all-mass poles, under omnipresent gravity.

5. Natural Selection is a trait of organisms, life?

No. Natural selection is ubiquitous for ALL mass formats, all spin arrays. It derives from the expansion of the universe. All mass formats, regardless of size and type, from black holes to smallest particles, strive to increase their constrained energy in attempt to postpone their own reconversion to energy, to the energy that fuels cosmic expansion.

6. Life is an enigma?

Life is just another type of mass array, a self-replicating mass array. Earth life is a replicating RNAs mass. It has always been and still is an RNA world. ALL Earth’s organisms are evolved RNAs, evolved for maintaining-enhancing Earth’s biosphere, for prolonging RNAs survival.

7. Cells are Earth-life’s primal organisms?

NO. Earth’s life day one was the day on which RNA began replicating. RNAs, genes, are ORGANISMS. And so are their evolved templates, (RNA and DNA) genomes, ORGANISMS, as evidenced by life’s chirality and by life’s sleep.

8. Circadian Schmircadian sleep origin?

Sleep is inherent for life via the RNAs, the primal Earth ORGANISMS originated and originally active only under direct sunlight, in their pre-metabolism genesis era.

9. Epigenetics are heritable gene functions changes not involving changes in DNA sequence?

The “heritable or enduring changes” are epiDNAtics, not epigenetics. Alternative splicing is not epigenetics, even if/when not involving alteration of the DNA sequence. Earth life is an RNA world.

10.Genetics drive biology and culture modifications?

NO. It is culture that modifies genetics, not genetics that modifies culture. Culture modifies genetics simply via the evolutionary natural selection process of the RNA ORGANISMS. Likewise many natural genetic changes are due to aging and/or circumstantial effects on the genes and/or genomes ORGANISMS, similar to aging and/or evolutionary processes in monocell communities or in multicelled organisms.

 

SCIENCE SHOULD UNFREEZE. SCIENCE SHOULD ADJUST ITS VISION, COMPREHENSION AND CONCEPTS.

 

Dov Henis

(Comments From 22nd Century)

http://www.the-scientist.com/community/user/profile/1655.page

Seed of Human-Chimp Genomes Diversity

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2SF3CJJM5OU6T27OC4MFQSDYEU/blog/articles/53079

03.2010 Updated Life Manifest

http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/54.page#5065

Evolution, Natural Selection, Derive From Cosmic Expansion

http://darwiniana.com/2010/09/05/the-question-reductionists-fear/

Rethink Evolution/Natural Selection

http://darwiniana.com/2011/03/29/comment-from-dov-henis/comment-page-1/

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B.

Quantum Mechanics Of Life

Life’s Evolution Is The Quantum Mechanics Of Biology

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2SF3CJJM5OU6T27OC4MFQSDYEU/blog/articles/271915?listPage=index&bb=0

 

From “Essence Of Quantum Mechanics”

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2SF3CJJM5OU6T27OC4MFQSDYEU/blog/articles/245916?listPage=uncategorized

The universe, and life within it, are not just conglomerations of mechanisms. The universe, and life within it, have come into being by the nature of energy-mass dualism, and their fate, their final outcome, is governed by this dualism. The genesis and, most probable cyclic, existence of the universe are governed by the energy-mass relationship.

Energy-mass relationship governs also the routes, the mechanisms, of cosmic and life evolutions.

Mechanisms do not set/determine the classical physics fate states. Mechanisms are routes of evolution between classical physics fate states. Quantum mechanics are mechanisms, probable, possible and actual mechanisms of getting from one to other classical physics states WITHIN the expanse from cosmic singularity to the maximum expanded universe and back to singularity states.

The universe is the archetype of quantum within classical physics. This is the fractal oneness of the universe. Astronomically there are two physics. A classical Newtonian physics behaviour of and between galactic clusters, and a quantum physics behaviour WITHIN the galactic clusters.

Life’s Evolution Is The Quantum Mechanics Of Biology.

UNRAVEL COMPLEXITIES OF GENETICS. Extend Evolution/Natural Selection Backward To Genes/Genomes.

BOTH ARE ORGANISMS.

The origin-reason and the purpose-fate of life are mechanistic, ethically and practically valueless. Life is the cheapest commodity on Earth. Human life is just one of many nature’s routes for the natural survival of RNAs, the base Earth organism.

It is up to humans themselves to elect the purpose and format of their life as individuals and as group-members.

 

Dov Henis

(Comments From 22nd Century)

Inception And Prevalence Of Western Monotheism

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2SF3CJJM5OU6T27OC4MFQSDYEU/blog/articles/53111

http://darwiniana.com/2011/04/20/comment-on-old-testament/

=============================

C.

Adaptation And Genetics

Identify USA Science Problems

Enough Is Enough!

 

Concluding phrase of “A New Evolutionary History of Primates”

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110317172047.htm

genetic underpinnings of human adaptation”

This phrase displays basic ignorance of the relationship between genetics and physiology/system adaptation.

It should be replaced with “adaptation underpinnings of human genetics”.

UNRAVEL COMPLEXITIES OF GENETICS.

Extend Evolution/Natural Selection Backward To Genes/Genomes, BOTH ARE ORGANISMS.

IT IS ADAPTATION (CULTURE) THAT INDUCES GENESEXPRESSION MODIFICATION, NOT GENETICS THAT INDUCES ADAPTATION. Modified genetic expression proceeds to energetically favor/enable adaptation.

 

Dov Henis

(comments from 22nd century)

Hope For Science?

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2SF3CJJM5OU6T27OC4MFQSDYEU/blog/articles/248628?listPage=uncategorized

PS: How have the USA government and nation/public come to allow a plainly obvious (“scientists”, whatever it means) trade-union, AAAS, to be involved in a host of national policies and budgets matters? The motives/interests of the AAAS, just another trade-union, are NOT always/necessarily congruent with the nation’s/public welfare and it definitely hinders very effectively advancement of basic science…DH

 

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 II.

EarthLife Genesis By 2011 Data

 

- Earth’s primal ORGANISMS are RNAs, good Sun radiation absorption-constraint, self-replicating mass formats. Corroborating evidence: life’s chirality and life’s sleep.

- All EarthLife is evolved RNAs. All self-replicators are ORGANISMS, including genomes. DNA selected for some genomes being energetically stabler than RNA.

- Life’s drive: RNA’s natural selection, enhance-maintain Earth’s biosphere, exploit-postpone Sun’s and Earth’s energy prior to their fueling universe expansion.

- Drive of Life’s evolution: Natural selection is ubiquitous for ALL mass-formats/spin-arrays; must ingest energy-or-mass to

delay-postpone eventual own reconversion to energy, all of which is destined to fuel expansion of the universe. Universe expansion reconverts singularity’s mass to energy. Eventually, as nearly all massfuel is consumed, expansion will be overcome by gravity to initiate re-empansion to singularity, reconverting ALL energy to ALL mass.

 

Dov Henis

(Comments From 22nd Century)

http://www.scientistsolutions.com/t18894-update+comprehension+of+universe_life+evolution%2c+of+rna_dna+mismatch_relati.html

http://www.the-scientist.com/community/user/profile/1655.page

Seed of Human-Chimp Genomes Diversity

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2SF3CJJM5OU6T27OC4MFQSDYEU/blog/articles/53079

03.2010 Updated Life Manifest

http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/54.page#5065

Evolution, Natural Selection, Derive From Cosmic Expansion

http://darwiniana.com/2010/09/05/the-question-reductionists-fear/

Rethink Evolution/Natural Selection

http://darwiniana.com/2011/03/29/comment-from-dov-henis/comment-page-1/

 

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