Re John's [OPE-L:5038] : (although this is a response to John, I think it incorporates a response to Andrew's 5039 as well) > Why > you're on your high horse on this is beyond me. I consider the charge of intentional suppression of thought to be a serious one. If it is a false charge then the characters of some good people are being unfairly impugned. If the charges are true, then this is unacceptable practice for any economics journal -- particularly any radical one. > I note that at no point do > you suggest that you'd like to see some of the rejected > papers as well as > the reviewer's comments. Seems > to me that that would be the only convincing evidence. The following is also an answer to a similar question from Andrew: I am willing to look at *any* evidence. Bring it forward. My point is only that if one makes this charge then one should be prepared to back it up (a point Andrew evidently agrees with). But, I'm not the conference (in fact, I represent no one but myself!) and whatever I may or may not find convincing will almost certainly not be the same judgment of all others who are presented with the same information and documents. > My comment: Seems to me that if x out y are rejected > you'd at least want > to sit down and read some of the papers as well as the comments of the > reviewers. See above. > You and I have both read statements on this list that reject TSS without > looking into the > matter. This is not to say all rejections are in this category but > certainly some have been. > Why would you not think that this may occur when it comes to RRPE? The question isn't whether it "may" occur -- the issue is whether suppression *did* occur. I didn't say that it *did not* occur, but I will have to be convinced. It seems to me that the burden of proof is on the person or persons making the charge. Yes, there have been some that have dismissed the TSSI unfairly without reading the relevant papers, *but* one can not then deduce from this that the _RRPE_ did the same. > Hopefully, the conference will take up matters other than this nonsense. Amen. In solidarity, Jerry
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