“hand-picked by the existing membership”
practically the definition of insider, elitist, ossification guaranteed to produce nothing new or useful ....
Sounds like some elitist summer camp. No doubt they bring along family/mistresses, etc. to their hard working La Jolla stay.
Gone are the days when we just accepted some association, think tank, gov’t entity or foundation as “a great thing” without actually LOOKING INTO IT, because someone told us it was smart/good/necessary...
They have lied to us for too long and the gig is up now that the research tools are (more) available to us..