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It's also not like Piketty's book was peer-reviewed either...

Curious, what is exactly a peer-reviewed book? Could you give me some examples of one?

Curious, what is exactly a peer-reviewed book? Could you give me some examples of one?

Here's an article that describes the problems of the lack of fact-checking in books compared to the fact checking that some US newspapers do.

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/09/why...

Readers might think nonfiction books are the most reliable media sources there are. But accuracy scandals haven't reformed an industry that faces no big repercussions for errors.

No, I absolutely agree and this is one of the reasons I do not read non-fiction books.

I was just wondering what a peer-reviewed book is.

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