Working party on peer review

There are two working parties on peer review: one set up by Sense about Science, and another by the Royal Society. Patrick Bateson, Vice President of the Royal Society, liaises between the two groups.

It has been suggested that "part of its agenda [is] the "tightening up" of peer review procedures, to ensure that inconvenient research results simply never see the light of day." [1]

RS Working Party Members

• Sir Patrick Bateson FRS (Chair), Vice President, Royal Society.
• Dr Phillip Campbell, Editor, Nature
• Dr Linda Cummings, Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow, Dept of Mathematics, University of Nottingham
• Professor John Enderby FRS, Chair, Royal Society Publishing Board
• Andrew Greene, Merlin Biosciences (until December 2003)
• Professor Paul Harvey FRS, Head, Dept of Zoology, University of Oxford
• Professor Justin Lewis, School of Journalism, Cardiff University
• Dr Alan McNaught, Royal Society of Chemistry
• Dr Mike Owen, Senior Vice-President, GlaxoSmithKline
• Nick Partridge OBE, Chair, Consumers in NHS Research
• Dr Andrew Sugden, Senior Editor, Science
• Professor Kathy Sykes, Professor of Public Understanding of Science and Technology, University of Bristol
• John von Radowitz, Science Correspondent, Press Association
• Ms Alex Williamson, Publishing Director, BMJ Specialist Journals

Sense about Science Working Party Members

• Tony Gilland
• Tracey Brown
• Fiona Fox

Resources

• Brian John, On the Corruption of GM Science, GM Science Debate website forums, accessed November 2003

• Pat Hagan, "Peer review under scrutiny", The Scientist, February 3, 2003