Latest review
First review round: 18.4 weeks. Overall rating: 0 (very bad).
Outcome: Rejected.
Motivation:
The manuscript was dealing with a controversial topic, which was critical on the government of some countries. In the second round, both reviewers were biased. Political bias and disagreement dominating >80% of the comments, while <20% of the comments window-dressed the review comments appealing to research method (thus making it sound - while every method have got its strength and weaknesses).
I made an appeal to the editor, highlighting the ethical issues in the review process (An appeal was allowed according to the website). But the editor provided a generic rejection letter with fairly high rate of GPT-generated (as per GPTZero and ZeroGPT), which made me skeptical on whether he seriously considered my appeal, or he has done his job.
