[lbo-talk] Attack on industrial wind puffed with false peer review claims

Bill O'Connor billyoc at gmail.com
Mon Aug 3 11:53:22 PDT 2009


Gar Lipow <the.typo.boy at gmail.com> writes:


> Here is the sad thing: People make non-peer-reviewed arguments every
> day. Non-fiction that is not peer reviewed has been known to end up on
> the best-seller list and influence public debate. In falsely claiming
> valid peer review, Pierpont has undermined the credibility of her
> arguments far more than non-peer reviewed publication would have.
> Valid arguments do not need to be shored up by carefully planned
> deceit.

I'm sure her work *was* peer reviewed by her fellow petro-employees.

-- In Solidarity, Billy O'Connor



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