Rather than reinforcing the notion of teaching the best available scientific understanding of these topics, the legislation directs educators to tread lightly, reviewing "the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses" in these areas.
For instance, if you're decent at math, but you have almost no knowledge of world history, you would do well to spend most of your time brushing up on basic historical concepts while only lightly reviewing your math skills.
Although Web-based publication has not yet resulted in the chaos envisioned by Shrager, et al., we are rapidly headed for a world of increasingly lightly reviewed, post-reviewed, or unreviewed scientific publications.
In the present paper, I employ a multi-agent, computational simulation to explore what impact self-publication and lightly reviewed, post-reviewed, or unreviewed publication might have on the progress of science.
Critics suggest that the open-access publishing model encourages mediocre work, noting that PLoS, for example, has succeeded financially only because one of its journals collects fees on thousands of lightly reviewed papers a year.
Although only lightly reviewed at the time of its release, the film has garnered a generally positive reputation among Garland biographers.
Moreover, unreviewed (or lightly reviewed) material is rapidly leaking into the supposedly validated scientific literature without any indication of the level of review it has received.
This supports the hypothesis that lightly reviewed publication is inefficient, and some moderate level of publication stringency is superior to either very weak or very strong levels.
With the current state of the review process, and new publication paradigms rapidly upon us, now is the time to question the impact that a flood of lightly reviewed scientific publications could have on scientific progress.
I suppose Tadzio Koelb intended to be lightly ironic when, reviewing Rebecca Hunt's novel, "Mr. Chartwell" (March 13), he wrote: "Every few years, there appear in most countries books that reveal the dirty truth about the national readership.
Anticipating these criticisms, Landry said Tuesday, "This decision was not taken lightly; we came to this conclusion after countless hours of reviewing the evidence".
