Not exact matches
With many folk from traditional publishers using paid - for
reviews as yet another
stick to beat self - published authors with, in some cases it's hard
to pinpoint if publishers are more angered by the moral
issues these have thrown up or by the fact that these authors have manipulated the system
to propel their books above more «worthy» traditionally published books.
I think what makes the whole
review removal
issue so frustrating is that no one can truly figure out what the rules are because Amazon doesn't
stick to its own written rules.
More disappointingly, the authors also seemed
to have forgotten that the hockey
stick was jsut the immediate symptom, that both they and M&M had raised more fundamental
issues regarding paleo - climate science core culture — the lack of full disclosure, the acceptance of journal unenforced policy, the lack of informed and robust peer
reviews, etc..
Richard was also deeply involved in the hockey
stick issue, and was a named referee chosen
to review the report of the National Research Council of the US National Academy of Sciences.
Common - sense Proposition 5 Multiple independent scientific studies have affirmed the existence of multiple Mann - style «hockey
sticks»; thus the scientific
issue that the National
Review, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and Mark Steyn sought
to address is moot.
For most of the
review time the battery % was
stuck at 98 % because of battery calibration
issue, I restarted the system after completing the
review and battery dropped by 42 % in about 1 hour 16 minutes with moderate
to heavy usage.