[Logophile]

After long delays in scraping together the funds for an experiment, Svensmark and his small team at the Danish National Space Center hit the jackpot in the summer of 2005. . . . But journal after journal declined to publish their report; the discovery finally appeared in the Proceedings of the Royal Society late last year.

"Peer review" has a way of filtering out politically incorrect science, either by limiting funding or by hindering publication.

[hinckley buzzard]

"Peer review" has a way of filtering out politically incorrect science, either by limiting funding or by hindering publication.

Peer review basically tends to support whatever is the dominant paradigm. Every career researcher has a file drawer full of data which he worked hard to collect, may be methodologically very sound, is interesting to him, may be very important to science--but which is unpublishable because it does not conform to the prevailing assumptions.

This pervasive pattern has already clamped a veritable death grip on the global warming hypothesis.