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The Peer Review Process Is Only As Good As the Peers

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Although, really, editors should know better than to rest on sexist claptrap if that’s what they get:

Evolutionary geneticist Fiona Ingleby was shocked when she read the review accompanying the rejection for her latest manuscript, which investigates gender differences in the Ph.D.-to-postdoc transition, so she took the issue to Twitter.

Earlier today, Ingleby, a postdoc at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom, posted two excerpts of the anonymous review. “It would probably … be beneficial to find one or two male biologists to work with (or at least obtain internal peer review from, but better yet as active co-authors)” to prevent the manuscript from “drifting too far away from empirical evidence into ideologically biased assumptions,” the reviewer wrote in one portion.

“Perhaps it is not so surprising that on average male doctoral students co-author one more paper than female doctoral students, just as, on average, male doctoral students can probably run a mile a bit faster than female doctoral students,” added the reviewer (whose gender is not known).

Well, yes — this is why Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan should have recused themselves from the same-sex marriage cases. There is only one objective, disinterested standpoint, and it’s the white, male, heterosexual, Christian one.

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