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Originally Posted by craig1120
Are you guys saying that people are trying to link creationism and epigenetics? Can someone explain how this would be possible?
What is being said is that a bunch of well known creationists have created a "journal" where they enjoy being both the editorial board and the published authors.
But okay, I will play your game. Here is a review of the article:
About the author:
The specific article in question is a literary review that references completely arbitrarily between the 1920s and 2010s. We are talking about near 450 references over about 16 pages of text. Doing a thorough analysis of this is pretty much impossible, something I also suspect is what the author wants. I did, however, do about a dozen spot checks.
The referenced articles vary in both content and scope, there seems to be little pattern as to why they are selected. There is a strange mix of recent much cited articles and very old obscure articles, but the author never gives a good explanation as to why a specific reference is being used, nor does Wells ever seem to give a good description of what his referenced material is about.
For a summary review this is very bad form, as a summary review should both thoroughly specify what is the scope of the literature it includes, why it is being included and it should also discuss - not only conclude - what specific implications this has for the subject matter.
The conclusion seems to bear very little relation to the theoretical summary, and the language is hazy when referencing and specific when concluding. The tendency to haphazardly reference articles over a near 100-year timespan makes it very difficult to see that the authors conclusions of necessary implications for the field are true.
Last edited by tame_deuces; 06-07-2014 at 05:43 PM.