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One man's experience is nothing if it stands alone.--C.S. Peirce
STEVEN WEINBERG'S article discussing Einstein's mistakes in the December 2005 Physics Today was characteristically measured and respectful. But to anyone interested in the zig-zag progress of science--its unceasing and methodical course corrections--a more revealing article had already appeared in the same journal that September. This was an account of Einstein's first experience of anonymous peer review. According to Daniel Kennefick it was an ordeal he had never been exposed to in Europe, and when he encountered it in America the great man didn't like it one bit.
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