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Nina Pierpont, MD, PhD, Wind Turbine Syndrome:  A Report on a Natural Experiment (Santa Fe, NM:  K-Selected Books, 2009), 294 pp.  Paperback, $18 USD.
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Published by K-Selected Books (Santa Fe, NM)

Peer Review:  What is it?

The following is taken from Dr. Pierpont’s book. 

A few words about peer review. Peer review is quite simple, contrary to the mystique it has acquired among wind developers (most of whom have a fanciful idea of what it is). Peer review consists of sending a scholarly manuscript to experts in that particular field of knowledge, who are asked to judge whether it merits publication. Simple as that. The identity of reviewers (also called “referees”) can be either known to the author (this is often the case with book manuscripts, where authors are routinely asked by the editor to submit a list of possible referees) or kept confidential.

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… a roadmap to this complicated subject

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—by Calvin Luther Martin, PhD 

Wind Turbine Syndrome (WTS) is the clinical name Dr. Nina Pierpont has given to the constellation of symptoms experienced by many (not all) people who find themselves living near industrial wind turbines.

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