So what does it do to the credibility of the peer-review system when sociologists involved believe or know that the colleagues who are reviewing their papers are the same people who are also publishing the above kind of posts on Internet blogs? Can their paper reviews be assumed to be fair, even-handed, unbiased? Having spewed the above kinds of middle-schoolish vitriol, can such colleagues be assumed and trusted to engage the scholarly review process as true “professionals?”
