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Series: Richard Smith Peer review: a flawed process at the heart of science and journals J R Soc Med 2006; 99: 178-182 [Full text] [PDF]

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Carpaccio was a painter and a fine one

Richard Smith   (11 May 2009)

A test of peer review or just a slip of the fingers?

David M. Richerby   (8 May 2009)

Carpaccio was a painter and a fine one 11 May 2009
Richard Smith, Director UnitedHealth Chronic Disease Initiative, London SW4 Send letter to journal: Re: Carpaccio was a painter and a fine one richardswsmith{at}yahoo.co.uk Richard Smith	Vittorio Carpaccio certainly was a painter, and a very fine one. A Venetian, he lived from 1460 to 1525, and his most famous paintings are the series on the life of St Ursula that can be sen in the Accademia in Venice and his cycle of paintings for the Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni also in Venice. The wonderful Italian dish came later.
A test of peer review or just a slip of the fingers? 8 May 2009
David M. Richerby, Research Fellow School of Computing, University of Leeds Send letter to journal: Re: A test of peer review or just a slip of the fingers? richerby{at}comp.leeds.ac.uk David M. Richerby	I came across this article because it was quoted in some advice I read on what to do if a journal rejects one of your papers. The quote included the sentence, "If I ask people to rank painters like Titian, Tintoretto, Bellini, Carpaccio, and Veronese, I would never expect them to come up with the same order." Carpaccio is not a painter but a dish of thinly-sliced raw meat. Was this a deliberate mistake to test the peer-review process, a slip of the fingers or an over-eager application of the spell-checker? One assumes that "Caravaggio" was intended.