The Corner

Re: The Washington Read

The games scientists play, from a reader at a prestigious research institute

not a million miles from Madison, Wisconsin: “Mr Derbyshire—There is

always the apocryphal Science Read. For anonymously peer-reviewed scientific

journals, there are stories of people who misspell by one letter all the

names in the bibliography. One can then deduce who reviewed the paper, as

people only ever look for their own works, and will ask that they be

corrected.”

John Derbyshire — Mr. Derbyshire is a former contributing editor of National Review.
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