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Peer review in Castle Wolfenstein

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"Peer fortress: The scientific battlefield" uses first-person shooter gaming characters to put a humorous spin on scientific peer review. Six characters that might show up whenever you submit a manuscript. The one I seem to get most often is the Medic:

The Medic wanted to save your paper.

But, they ended up killing the patient.

Rife with suggestions for improvement, the Medic's review somberly concludes that "even though I enjoyed the paper, it would be premature to publish these results at this time."


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