Nobel Prize winner calls peer review ?very distorted,? ?completely corrupt,? and ?simply a regression to the mean?

[Emily]

http://retractionwatch.com/2014/03/03/nobel-prize-winner-calls-peer-review-very-distorted-completely-corrupt-and-simply-a-regression-to-the-mean/

Sydney Brenner has been talking about what?s wrong with the scientific enterprise since long before he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2002.

And in a new interview, Brenner doesn?t hold back, saying that publishers hire ?a lot of failed scientists, editors who are just like the people at Homeland Security, little power grabbers in their own sphere.?..

Direct link to the new interview:
How Academia and Publishing are Destroying Scientific Innovation: A Conversation with Sydney Brenner