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[BPC.APA@email.apa.org (Considine, Blaise)]

Does palentology have anything along the lines of peer review before 
findings are published, or is the rush to claim one's discovery so 
overwhelming that situations such as this protoavis arise? Does this 
question make sense? If, let's say one of you palentologists were to 
stumble on what appears to be the find of the century, wouldn't you have 
to run your findings past a blind peer review board or something before 
you send it in to Science or Nature? If not, why not? 
Blaise "I'm an editor, so I don't have to publish" Considine 
[bpc.apa@email.apa.org]