Keeping science fair

"Several journals are now accepting money for “fast-track” services [including peer review]. It is hard to see how this policy can be implemented without sometimes giving the monied authors an advantage over those who don’t pay. Fast-tracking seems likely to leads to shortcut by the editor or reviewers as they seek to meet the fast-tracking deadline. And it seems these journals won’t even indicate which manuscripts benefited from fast-tracking and which didn’t. Please join us in signing an open protest letter that we’ll soon send to these journals...."