Peer Review and the Three Rs: A Challenge to Integrity?

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Peer review is undoubtedly an imperfect process, but there is no other acceptable way of attempting to ensure the highest standards in research and the publication of opinions and results

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I am currently enjoying The Grantchester Mysteries by James Runcie. In Sydney Chambers and The Perils of the Night (London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014), Canon Chambers puts it like this: It was surely possible that one man's thinking could ‘percolate’ into another's, but there would have to be a difference between influence, whether acknowledged or not, and theft.

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