... Section 6 The politics of statistics Chapter 15 How journal articles get published In my journal, anyone can make a fool of himself. Rudolph Virchow (Silverman, 1998; p. 21) Perhaps the most important ... and the dollar bill, here as elsewhere, has a pre-eminent role. 114 Chapter 15: How journal articles get published How good or bad is this anonymous peer review process? I have described the matter ... were unpublished, the published literature was 94% positive (see Figure 17.1). Further, of the negative studies, 61% were unpublished, 8% were published as frankly negative, but 31% were published...