tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post114985737735267201..comments2024-02-15T04:42:41.606+00:00Comments on James' Empty Blog: Nature Peer Review Trial and DebateJames Annanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04318741813895533700noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-1161385104410407192006-10-20T23:58:00.000+01:002006-10-20T23:58:00.000+01:00Peer Review Failure at JAMAThe Center for Regulato...<B>Peer Review Failure at JAMA</B><BR/><BR/>The Center for Regulatory Effectiveness <A HREF="http://www.thecre.com " REL="nofollow"> www.TheCRE.com</A> has revised the Wikipedia entry on <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review" REL="nofollow"> peer review </A> to discuss and document peer review failure at JAMA. The revised entry exposes a politically biased Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) article [JAMA, May 24, 2006; 295(20): 2407 - 2410] on the Data Quality Act and atrazine that contains numerous factual errors and misrepresentations. A crucial, obvious error in the article was the assertion that atrazine is being phased out by the European Union because “Atrazine...has been repeatedly demonstrated to be a potent endocrine disruptor....” JAMA’s peer review process accepted this claim even though the Official Journal of the European Union explicitly stated “In the 70s, <B>a political decision</B> was taken to reduce to ‘zero’ the presence of pesticides, independent of their toxicity.” [Emphasis added]<BR/><BR/>The CRE Wikipedia revisions also include a discussion of the peer requirements imposed on federal regulatory agencies by the Office of Management and Budget. Federal agencies cannot use or rely on scientific information that does not meet the OMB peer review requirements. Many peer reviewed journals do not meet the OMB peer review requirements.<BR/><BR/>For more information about the failed peer review at JAMA, please contact <A HREF=" wgkelly@tetontel.com " REL="nofollow"> William G. Kelly, Jr.</A>. For more information about the US government’s peer review requirements, please contact <A HREF=" Slaughter@mbsdc.com" REL="nofollow"> Scott Slaughter</A>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com