i already showed the peer-reviewed journals that he has been published in.
they are academic journals. and they are peer reviewed... while i admit that they may not be considered
mainstream academic journals, i think it is important in this light to perhaps look at and further understand the peer review process. yes, i have already read the wikipedia article on peer review, and i think it is an excellent point to bring up.
here, peer review is defined as:
wiki: peer review a dit:
Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility. In academia peer review is often used to determine an academic paper's suitability for publication.
sounds great, in a utopian world..
below, it is important to note that criticism does not necessarily mean "negative criticism", however, the entire section that critiques the peer review process seems to, well, read it yourself...
wiki: peer review: criticism a dit:
While passing the peer review process is often considered in the scientific community to be a certification of validity,[citation needed] it is not without its problems. Drummond Rennie, deputy editor of Journal of the American Medical Association is an organizer of the International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication, which has been held every four years since 1986.[24] He remarks,
There seems to be no study too fragmented, no hypothesis too trivial, no literature too biased or too egotistical, no design too warped, no methodology too bungled, no presentation of results too inaccurate, too obscure, and too contradictory, no analysis too self-serving, no argument too circular, no conclusions too trifling or too unjustified, and no grammar and syntax too offensive for a paper to end up in print.
Richard Horton, editor of the British medical journal The Lancet, has said that
The mistake, of course, is to have thought that peer review was any more than a crude means of discovering the acceptability—not the validity—of a new finding. Editors and scientists alike insist on the pivotal importance of peer review. We portray peer review to the public as a quasi-sacred process that helps to make science our most objective truth teller. But we know that the system of peer review is biased, unjust, unaccountable, incomplete, easily fixed, often insulting, usually ignorant, occasionally foolish, and frequently wrong.[25]
[edit] Allegations of bias and suppression
The interposition of editors and reviewers between authors and readers always raises the possibility that the intermediators may serve as gatekeepers.[26] Some sociologists of science argue that peer review makes the ability to publish susceptible to control by elites and to personal jealousy.[27] The peer review process may suppress dissent against "mainstream" theories.[28][29][30] Reviewers tend to be especially critical of conclusions that contradict their own views,[31] and lenient towards those that accord with them. At the same time, established scientists are more likely than less established ones to be sought out as referees, particularly by high-prestige journals or publishers. As a result, it has been argued,[by whom?] ideas that harmonize with the established experts' are more likely to see print and to appear in premier journals than are iconoclastic or revolutionary ones, which accords with Thomas Kuhn's well-known observations regarding scientific revolutions.[32]
[edit] Peer review failures
Main article: Peer review failure
Peer review failures occur when a peer-reviewed article contains obvious fundamental errors that undermine at least one of its main conclusions. Many journals have no procedure to deal with peer review failures beyond publishing letters to the editor.[33]
Peer review in scientific journals assumes that the article reviewed has been honestly written, and the process is not designed to detect fraud.[34
if this is not convincing due to the nature of wikipedia, how about another source:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/ ... r-review-p
in many cases, as we have seen here, there lies a very large margin for what kind of things happen in the peer review process. on one side you have things being published which may or may not even make sense grammatically,
have mathematical errors :shock: , or be totally plagiarized , as "the process is not designed to detect fraud". on the other side, you have wholly valid theories being shut down due to bias such as racism or sexism, with no regard to the "validity" of it whatsoever. this process itself, which is done via single blind, meaning, the reviewers know all of the applicants
personal information, and the applicant knows
nothing about the reviewers, is in dire need of revamping, yet, not surprisingly, none of the reviewers would like either transparency, nor double blind scenarios...
it's easy to be bias/racist/sexist toward somebody when they can't ever find out who's doing it or why. it's easy to spread lies about people when you don't have to worry about your reputation being tarnished...
nevertheless, he is still persisting in submitting his research to more of the major institutions.
maxfreakout a dit:
Allusion, you said that this man has had his work published in a peer reviewed scientific journal, however the link you posted was to a review of a small conference at a Beligian university, and NOT to a peer reviewed journal, i still want to know what journal this man was published it (if it exists)
it's getting tiring pointing to things that i have already posted, that neither of you bothered to read/watch before commenting... as i already said before, he has been peer-reviewed and published by such places as the Department of Mathematics in Leige, the American Institute of Physics, and The Noetic Press (the publishing division of The Noetic Advanced Studies Institute), which, if you had bothered to read all of my posts, or view the material that i have linked to them, you wouldn't have had such an ignorant misunderstanding of, and i wouldn't have needed to re-hash all of this. im really not sure why you have such a violent opposition to this mans work. every angle you have presented thus far is solely from an ignorant/uneducated standpoint, in that you are willingly refusing to view the information that i have provided in order to gain a solid understanding of his theory...
once again, nobody is really breaking anything to me, because it is not my fault that you don't understand why he uses the values that he does. maybe, just maybe, you should watch the video that i posted originally before you keep trolling in this thread.
the first link was the to explain the theory of the existence of the schwarzchild proton. the second one, the video that you didn't watch, was the one that showed the solution to einsteins field equations. for ease of access, here it is again
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 1256390335
nothing else posted concerning his mathematics (which i
do understand) is worth acknowledging until you consume the information that was provided for this topic/debate.