Tinker, tailor, publisher, spy: Robert Maxwell and his creation of peer review
Thu 5:15 pm +00:00, 1 Jan 2026Source: https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/30/tinker-tailor-publisher-spy-how-robert-maxwell-created-the-academic-peer-review-system/ Publication of research results, theoretical propositions and scholarly essays is not a free-for-all. As shown by the dogmatism around climate change and Covid-19, sceptics struggle to get papers in print. The gate-keeper is the peer-review system, which people take for granted as a screening process to ensure rigour in scientific literature. But it is not …













