
Topic
The Peer Review System, Explained From Both Sides
Who picks the reviewers, what the anonymity models hide, and how an editor turns three reports into one decision.

Who picks the reviewers, what the anonymity models hide, and how an editor turns three reports into one decision.

A retraction is not a erasure. It is a public record of where the checking failed — and reading it closely teaches more about how science works than most clean results do.

Reviewer 2 is not the enemy. A calm, documented response letter is.