A good, important, column from Brady Yauch on a Hydro One sale being a side issue to OEB regulator strength
(May 20, 2015) Privatizing Hydro One won’t be bad for ratepayers, but a lack of reform in the province’s electricity sector will be.
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Good tips on identifying junk papers.
Here are three rather solid ways to tell if you are looking at junk science, which will hold *99.9999999% of the time.
1. The study was carried out over a decade before it got published. This means one thing: the work has been rejected by more reputable journals than you can shake a fist at.
2. Almost every peer reviewed study referenced by the paper was published over a decade ago. This means one thing: the author is ignoring all of the later studies that contradict those he is citing.
3. The paper is published in a predatory open access journal. This means one thing: the study received minimal peer review in exchange for cash payment from the study’s authors.
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