Talk:Peer review in frontier subject areas

I needed this article so that I could reference "academic peer," "practical peer" and the difference between vetting and blind peer review. The article needs work and the recommendations should be considered a first cut.

One point to consider is that I originally used "amateur" compared to academically trained. That is a bad comparison because in frontier subjects, everyone is amateur in the eyes of the academic. A better term(s) would be:

• Practitioner: person long-experienced in the field and using best practices.
• Amateur: person new to the field and still learning best practices.
• Academic: person trained by an accredited educational institution in the best practices of the scientific method, technical writing and critical thinking.

Please feel free toedit the article Tom Butler 17:53, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Whatever the above says, this is actually a pretty good article. What I read of it, anyway. I fixed a typo, there are a few more to grind out. Human 03:31, 29 August 2009 (UTC)