James Padgett and I have both been pestering Fred Pearce about the claim he makes in The Climate Files about the Soon and Baliunas paper, namely that all four of the peer reviewers of the paper recommended rejection.
Fred, to his credit, has checked his records. He says he can't locate his source and he therefore concludes that he has got it wrong.
I agree with you, Andrew, that my statement that four reviewers recommended rejection of the original paper is almost certainly wrong. I have searched my files for any statement from any of the parties making that claim, and can find none. (The reviewers asked for revisions, but that would be normal.)... I cannot be sure, but it is certainly possible that I simply misread Clare Goodess's November 2003 statement that the paper had "gone to four reviewers none of whom had recommended rejection".
James has written up the story at WUWT, and notes how Fred's book - a single secondary source that supports the AGW narrative - has been used by Wikipedia rather than the account of Clare Goodess - a primary source that doesn't.
My children tell me that they are taught at school that "Wiki always lies". This is probably going too far, but on climate change matters, it's probably best avoided.