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Science Talk

Peer Review of Peer Review; and the Franklin Institute Awards

Science Talk

Scientific American

Science

4.2644 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2007

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Scientific American editor-in-chief John Rennie discusses peer review of scientific literature, the subject of a panel he recently served on at the World Conference of Science Journalists. He also talks about some out-of-the-box thinking about burial rites. And physicist Bo Hammer talks about the awards being presented this week at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Plus we'll test your knowledge about recent science in the news. Website mentioned on this episode include www.fi.edu. To vote for the Scientific American podcast in the podcast category of the Webby Awards, go to www.webbyawards.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American for the seven days starting April 25th. I'm Steve

0:38.4

Mirsky. This week on the podcast, we'll talk with Scientific American Editor-in-Chief John

0:42.8

Rennie, just back from a big science journalism conference in Australia, and Bo Hammer. We'll

0:48.8

talk about the Franklin Institute Awards being given out this week in Philadelphia, as well

0:53.5

as some other things.

0:54.5

Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news.

0:57.8

First up, John Rennie, he was in Melbourne last week, attending the World Conference of Science

1:02.4

Journalists, where he was a member of a panel talking about peer review in science publishing.

1:08.1

And he also has some comments about a truly out-of-the-box idea about human

1:12.4

burial rights. I spoke to him in the library at Scientific American.

1:17.6

Hi, John. How are you?

1:18.9

Hi, Steve. Just fine.

1:19.9

You were at this conference and you were discussing, you're on a panel discussing peer review.

1:25.6

That's right. Let's talk about what peer review is, first of all.

1:28.6

That was actually one of the things that we talked about on this panel.

1:31.9

This was a panel called peer review of peer review.

1:34.9

Because what they wanted to do was they wanted to look at the peer review process, which is the one in which scientists, when they're looking at one another's work and deciding which papers deserve to appear in

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