Apparently, someone published a really curmudgeonly and regressive-thinking article about science publishing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, titled We Must Stop the Avalanche of Low-Quality Research. Commenters there are shredding it apart. But you should also see blog posts discussing it, by Female Science Professor, DrugMonkey, Orac and Geekmommyprof. If anything, they do not fisk it thoroughly enough ;-)
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Waiting for that coffee to take effect but want it to appear you are doing something scholarly?
Have a look at this pair of highly-read posts at The Chronicle of Higher Education:
We Must Stop the Avalanche of Low-Quality Research
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Hey! Look at that fisk has gone lower case.
Mike the Mad Biologist also chimes in.
And the best anti-dote was written by Jennifer Rohn - a real-world example of the importance of publishing everything.