CHAPTER 6 How Science Preserves Truth; The Editor As a Gatekeeper of Truth
There is one book (Fyfe et al 2022) that offers a 350-year (1665 to 2015) look back at the history of science publishing and which I have reviewed (Helliwell 2023). I opened my book review with the following comments:
(This book) was inspired by the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society and the start of the first journal, Philosophical Transactions. At the celebrations, Sir Paul Nurse, Nobel Prize winner, observed that Henry Oldenburg had started the journal in 1665; Oldenburg had described four essential elements that its introduction would bring for scientists from all over the world, namely registration, verification, dissemination, ...
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