Dr Jeremy Horne is President-emeritus of the Southwest Area Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: AAAS. He currently retired in San Felipe, Baja, California (Mexico) doing research and writing in the areas of Logic as the language of innate order in the universe, which is an ongoing 40 year project.
Dr Horne taught many graduate courses in political science and technology, delivered many presentations on the philosophy of scientific methods for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Quantum Mind conferences, has been reviewer for various journals about the structure and process in binary space, consciousness studies, systems, theory, and philosophy of science, and Documentation Systems Developer, for White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
Dr. Horne is member of several professional organizations such as The American Association for the Advancement of Science, (AAAS, the World’s largest general scientific society) where he was President of its Southwest Area Division; Bioelectromagnetics Society; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers where he is a voting member of Fiber Optic Technical Advisory Group.
Dr. Jeremy Horne earned his Ph. D. in Philosophy at University of Florida, Gainesville; His Master of science in Political Science at New Haven, CT, and his Bachelor in Art in International Relation at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, He has been a member of the Phi Kappa Phi, National Academic Honor Society, and his name was included in several Who's Who directories.
Everyone talks about peer review, but articles like the one Carl Zimmer published in the 16 April 2012 of the New York Times keep appearing. There are an increasing number of cases of papers being retracted because of everything from poor quality to fraud. If this trend isn't reversed soon, we could be living in an age where published information simply isn't reliable. This presentation summarizes what is involved in peer review, the problems encountered in the process, some reasons for poor peer review, and some solutions.
