On Mar 30, 2:10*pm, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:43:58 -0600, Don Foreman
...peer scrutiny. *But sometimes the peers have their own axes to grind,
like years of research and credibility *that
One should keep in mind Galileo and his peers in the Catholic Church.
Gunner

A recent example of politically-influenced peer review is Alfred
Wegener and Continental Drift.