Eric F. Van de Velde wrote:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4564477.stm
>
> Is this a first? I.e., a major news organization uses unrefereed
> self-archived preprint as the basis of a news story. Although not a
> major hard-news story, it was posted on the main page of the BBC news
> web site. Does this point to the growing acceptance of Open
> Archives and/or of arXiv? Does it point to a growing disregard for peer
> review (at least, outside of the academy)?
There's this previous occasion (New Scientist, but citing arXiv
'publication'):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4357613.stm
The paper in question is
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0504003.
I would cynically suggest the story has more to do with promoting Doctor
Who than it does a breakthrough in theoretical wormhole physics (or peer
review).
All the best,
Tim.
Received on Tue May 24 2005 - 15:31:53 BST