On 2/3/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> qoutes:
> "Anybody who knows about peer review knows
that sometimes it will pick
> up a fraudulent study, but it's by no means guaranteed to do so,"
> Smith says. "And that's largely because it starts from a position of
> trust. So if somebody says there were 200 patients, then you assume
> there were 200 patients. You don't say, 'Well show me their records
> and show me their photographs, I need to see them.' The whole thing is
> based on trust."
In other words, "assume good faith".