I’m starting here and mean to return:

Touching on issues that I deal with when teaching about peer review and predatory publishing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/upshot/fake-academe-looking-much-like-the-real-thing.html?_r=0

Currently, I give students examples of popular and scholarly sources in hard copy, unbound format. I ask them to construct a grid of criteria to determine characteristics of each. I also give them some less clear examples of literature, newsletters from reputable sources and trade publications mostly, that will have good and accurate information, but isn’t peer-reviewed. I just tried adding more direction. Who is the audience? Who are the authors?

Article with some interesting history of peer review, with an irresistible lead: http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/PT.3.3463

And this proposed new course: Calling Bullshit in the age of big data