Peer Review and Conclusion Support

There is little question that the scientific community is the ultimate good old boy network. Generally it's not what you know, it's who you know. Then it's who you work with and who funds your research. This is a corrupt pyramid scheme. The higher a scientist rises in the pyramid, the greater his power, authority, and funding control.

The problem with this type of "managed research" is that the pyramid has no diversity of thought and zero tolerance for political diversity. In fact, diversity of thought is the death knell for any chance of moving up the food chain. This is not your father's form of evolution. It's political extremism.

Today's N Y Times publishes a comment about the recently discovered embryonic stem cell fraud in South Korea. The scientific community is full of papers and research that exemplifies "mission creep" and progressive bloviating. In fact, when published papers and research are randomly verified, as many as half have untruths, dishonesties, or major factual errors.

So how does the scientific community protect itself from outside scrutiny? It allows unrelated scientists to write papers and research conclusions as an honorary reward for their long-term work. Kinda like a career Oscar. This came to light recently when some in Congress sought to learn about global warming. Members subpoenaed records from the 3 most quoted climate researchers. Two ran for the exit doors. They claimed that they didn't participate in global warming work. So why pick on them, say answered? Other's asked why would scientists write conclusions for scientific work without knowing the facts or believing in the result? Honorary 5 and 6 figure compensation. Is this rent a scientist or what?

So along come some publishers that say they will now ask authors to sign that they actually understand the paper or the research and they agree with it. Dah! But not to worry! The scientific community is fighting back. They say this will silence critically important science and will sensor important opinions. I wonder how much secular socialist political pressure there is on the not so politically diverse scientific community? It seems opportune for congress to withhold research funding until scientist's understand our nation's criminal laws against fraud and tax theft.