Churchill famously said For new readers and those who request to be “好友 good friends， please read my 公告欄 firstChurchill famously said . . .“That democracy is the worse form of government except for all others . . .， as he laments the many ills and perverse effect on the efficiency of government. Reading the recent articleshttp://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-107667-1222266.html http://blog.sciencenet.cn/home.php?mod=space&uid=39731&do=blog&id=1216170 led me to paraphrase “that peer review is the worse form of evaluation except for all others . . .，. Yes錛 I don’t dispute that “peer review， can lead to abuses錛 inefficiency錛 and even wrong decisions. But over time peer judgement has no parallel. Good work can be temporarily misjudged. But coupled with “the test of time， this is the best system despite its well known drawbacks. Yes錛 scientific history are full of examples of authors/inventors who did not get their full recognition while alive. But that often is the result of personality and/or delayed impact of their work. By hind sight錛 one can say everyone got their due. Sure錛 the peer review system can be improved upon. But there are no reason to abandon it for something else.Weekly Headlines (excerpts) 1. Quarantined at home now錛 U.S. scientist describes his visit to China’s hot zone By Jon Cohen | Fri錛 06 Mar 2020 2. Why airport screening won’t stop the spread of coronavirus By Dennis Normile | Fri錛 06 Mar 2020 3. With $115 million錛 more than 80 Boston researchers will collaborate to tackle COVID-19 By Jennifer Couzin-Frankel | Thu錛 05 Mar 2020 4. New drugs aim to disarm the immune system’s ‘atomic bomb’ cells By Mitch Leslie | Thu錛 05 Mar 2020 5. Why does the weather stall? New theories explain enigmatic ‘blocks’ in the jet stream By Paul Voosen | Thu錛 05 Mar 2020 6. An emerging virus is killing farmed fish錛 but breeders can help them fight back By Erik Stokstad | Wed錛 04 Mar 2020 7. ‘We put everything into it.’ Modest telescope could have big impact on Turkish science By Umar Farooq | Wed錛 04 Mar 2020 8. Minimuscles let amputees control a robot hand with their minds By Kelly Servick | Wed錛 04 Mar 2020 9. ‘We had to act.’ How coronavirus fears forced physics society to nix giant meeting By Adrian Cho | Wed錛 04 Mar 2020 10. Indonesia finally reports two coronavirus cases. Scientists worry it has many more By Dyna Rochmyaningsih | Tue錛 03 Mar 2020 11. Fishing trawlers could harm water quality by disrupting seafloor microbes By Erik Stokstad | Tue錛 03 Mar 2020 12. New Zealand birds show humanlike ability to make predictions By Virginia Morell | Tue錛 03 Mar 2020 13. China’s aggressive measures have slowed the coronavirus. They may not work in other countries By Kai Kupferschmidt | Mon錛 02 Mar 2020，
