From cogburn apps.ag.udel.edu Thu Mar 3 14:37:32 2016
Subject: Re: The peer review system
From: Larry Cogburn <cogburnapps.ag.udel.edu>
To: Multiple Recipients of AnGenMap <angenmapanimalgenome.org>
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2016 14:37:32 -0600
Should we retract published papers en masse?
Sent from my iPhone
> On Mar 3, 2016, at 3:09 PM, DANIEL GIANOLA <gianolaansci.wisc.edu> wrote:
>
> In Nature Genetics or PNAS a moderate amount of prayer can be helpful,
> but nice visuales are possibly more powerful.
>
> Enviado desde Outlook Mobile
> http://aka.ms/xp9y6l
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 6:27 AM -0800, "Andres Legarra"
<Andres.Legarratoulouse.inra.fr> wrote:
>
> I once sent one paper to Plos ONE, review was fine, but the editorial
> process _after_ the review was sloppy. This is one of the reasons for me
> not to send more manuscripts.
>
> My own experience as associate editor of GSE and frequent reviewer of other
> journals (Genetics, JDS, JAS, JABG) is that editors and reviewers take
> their work very seriously. I definitely think that journals controlled by
> Societies (such as Genetics or JDS) are more focused.
>
> Andres
>
> On 03/03/16 15:06, DANIEL GIANOLA wrote:
>
> Jerry,
>
> I side with you and will join your proposal of a boycott to PLOS ONE. Here
> goes a definition (Wikipedia):
>
> "A boycott is an act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing
> with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually
> for social or political reasons. The purpose of a boycott is to inflict some
> economic loss on the target, or to indicate a moral outrage, to try to compel
> the target to alter an objectionable behavior."
>
> which should be extended to "social, political or scientific reasons"
>
> I must be brief. Otherwise I will miss the 00:10 flying ark.
>
> Dan
>
> ________________________________________
> .From: Taylor, Jerry F. (Animal Science) <taylorjerrmissouri.edu>
> .Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 5:41 PM
> .To: DANIEL GIANOLA
> .Cc: Multiple Recipients of
> .Subject: Re: The peer review system
>
> Take a look at the reader comments. Plenty of calls for retraction in there!
>
> Sometimes it just makes you wonder why we find it so hard to get papers
> published with 3-4 rounds of review and re-review and then something
> like this pops up!
>
> I didnt much like PLoS One before thisbut now I think we will make sure
> that our papers go elsewhere.by design!
>
> Jerry
>
>
> On Mar 2, 2016, at 5:23 PM, DANIEL GIANOLA <gianolaansci.wisc.edu>
>
> Just read the abstract of this PLoS One paper:
> http://journals.plos.org/...ne.0146193
> Draw your own conclusion.
> Dan
>
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