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It's not unheard of for large research organizations to require that papers be reviewed in-house prior to publication, usually merely vetting the author as competent in the field, but sometimes involving nearly a full peer review. If NASA requires that then these two may have gotten ahead of themselves.





That was my point. The denial could be just that.

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Nature and Science are not Time Magazine. While rebuttals and Letters to the Editor are not peer reviewed the authors definitely are vetted - a rebuttal will make it no further than the nearest garbage can unless they can find out that the whiner knows something about the field. Moreover, rebuttals made available to the original authors so that they can have their reply published at the same time. There's plenty of smell test applied to keep out the no-names and ridiculous complaints.



Eh, maybe, I don't know enough about it. I'm just repeating what I've heard from various scientists.


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OK, a follow-up here.

In fact Nature never did get a paper submitted. He probably heard from a friend who heard from a friend... He may have confused the LPSC talk below with a pending paper publication somehow.



Is there an echo in here? As far as the "friend of a friend" comment, you know about as much as I do. Nothing.

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