Reply To: Direction of Emission of the three He ions after B-H fusion reaction.

[Warwick]

jamesr wrote: I don’t pretend to know anything about his “Curvature Cosmology”, however I would point out that although the journal he published in claims to be peer reviewed, a quick google on it seems to cast doubt on the professionalism of the operation.

From a reddit thread:

Here is an account from someone asked to act as reviewer for an article
http://www.sentientdevelopments.com/2009/09/explanation-for-lifes-origins-that.html

I know controversial theories are less likely to get published in mainstream journals like IOP’s “Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics” or Elsevier’s “Physics Letters B” but I think you’d have to at least a bit guarded that the peer review process will not have been as robust in a ‘journal’ like this.

In the end all peer review is a human system, which is flawed and imperfect. Reasons for not accepting submissions can be pretty silly, whereas anything that is expected and conventional goes unquestioned (e.g. natural scientists’ grasp of statistical inference is often very poor, but they follow a well-trodden orthodox procedure and that is considered good enough).

Yes, some sources are more likely to be better checked than others. My attitude is, I would approach any scientific information with scepticism, regardless of how authoritative or otherwise the journal. It’s got to stand or fall on its own merits.

That said, reading your link, that does sound fairly damning, doesn’t it.