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Old 16-01-2013, 05:00 PM
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the PDF article is in the "Journal of Cosmology Vol,21, No,37 published, 10 January 2013" and the article is hosted at the University of Buckingham, wouldn't the "Journal of Cosmology" be peer reviewed?

Interesting article

some info on one of the authors Chandra Wickramasinghe
A tactic used by cranks is to create "Journals" in order to create the impression of being peer reviewed.

One of the more infamous examples is this one.

I suggested to an internet colleague (and astrophysicist) that an article be written debunking some of the nonsense published. The intention was to see if the article was to be "peer reviewed" and published in this journal.

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