[meteorite-list] Article: Discovery of probably Tunguska meteorites at the bottom of Khushmo river's shoal

[Paul H.]

In "Re: [meteorite-list] Article: Discovery of probably 
Tunguska meteorites at the bottom of Khushmo river's shoal." at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com/msg112777.html
Robert wrote:

" http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1304/1304.8070.pdf

Discovery of probably Tunguska meteorites at the 
bottom of Khushmo river's shoal (by) Andrei E. Zlobin
Vernadsky State Geological Museum, Russian Academy 
of Sciences, Mokhovaya 11/11, 125009, Moscow, 
Russian Federation

I am stunned.  
>From the Vernadsky State Geological Museum, 
    Russian Academy of Sciences!!
The "shatter-cones" appear to be aragonite crystals.
The samples are all m-wrongs.  
This paper would never pass the peer-review of Club-Space-Rock, 
how did it get past the Cornell University Library? 
http://arxiv.org/help/endorsement
How did this ever get published?"

If a person looks at the endorsemen web page at  
http://arxiv.org/help/endorsement , it specifically
states: 

"The endorsement process is not peer review." 

Thus, the articles posted to arXiv are not peer-reviewed. 

Over the years, I have noticed that the arXiv endorsement 
system, although it allows "publication" of articles at a much 
lower cost than conventional peer-reviewed journals, also 
allows some rather questionable material to at times to be
"published" on arXiv. This material includes catastrophist 
pseudoscience such as "Tails of a Recent Comet" by Milton 
Zysman and Frank Wallace at http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.0416
and long discredited and scientifically illiterate nonsense 
about a "pole shift" causing the end of the last glacial as in 
"On the change of latitude of Arctic East Siberia at the end 
of the Pleistocene" by W. Woelfli and W. Baltensperger  at 
http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.2489?context=physics.geo-ph

A person has to take a critical look at what appears on 
arxiv.org and not accept it at face value. It appears the 
arXiv Blog simply repeats what the article is about 
without making a critical examination of the article's 
content. It is largely an Internet version of a press 
release and should be viewed with the same skepticism  
and critical eye as any press release.

Comments about another arXiv reprint can be found 
in "Meteorite crater found on mount Ararat?" at:

http://www.mail-archive.com/meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com/msg94574.html

The article is:

Yours, 

Paul H.