Peer Review - The Noblest Duty
of Every Researcher
Jean-François ROULET
DDS, PhD, Dr hc, Prof hc, Professor
Editor-in-Chief
Dear readers,
In the very first editorial for the Stomatology Edu Journal, I have stated the importance of the peer review process. It
is designed to guarantee that “Nothing is scientifically shown or proven before it has been published in a scientific
journal with a peer review system, so one can critically judge what was done, how it was done and evaluate how
solid it is.” as Andreas Linde, the editor of the Scandinavian Journal Dental Research has stated.
Have you ever searched (“googled”) a topic you are very familiar with on the internet? I did this several times and
was shocked every time. For instance, if you google “Fluoride” you get 26,000,000 hits in 0.43 seconds. You could
argue that this is proof that Fluoride is probably the most investigated substance in the world. True. The first hit
shown is Fluoride Wikipedia, which presents a neutral description of its chemical properties, occurrence, biologic
interactions etc. This is how it should be. However, the second hit is titled “Fluoride – Dangers of Fluoridation”
and leads you to www.mercola.com. What you find is a collection of all the fairy tales about Fluoride which are
disseminated by an active group of people. We all know from scientifically based li