"To aid Myers in his rhetorical analysis, both authors made available to him all revisions as well as the referees’ reports and their correspondence with editors and colleagues." "Myers quite naturally proceeds from studying the largely confidential refereeing process to two open debates in the literature."

"If it were not for the relativistic rhetoric that permeates Myers's book, ironies and tensions included, I could enthusiastically recommend it to scientists and
especially to science students. Young scientists need to know how the funding system, the publication process, and controversies in the literature work. As
it stands, I am afraid both scientists and science students will take the terms that Myers uses in their everyday senses, not in the highly technical senses developed by British sociologists of science.""Science does indeed have an important rhetorical dimension, but rhetorical analysis does not entail epistemological relativism."