When top scientists take 2 years to publish, it’s time to give up on old “Peer” review « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

It’s time for scientists to step outside the system and stop paying homage to the dogma of the old rules. It slows down research because the all-too-human gatekeepers can keep a topic away from public view for month after month, while people pay money for schemes that are not necessary and government reviewers can ignore results that are inconvenient.

In this day of electronic publication where space is no limit, and results can be discussed widely, transparently and easily, why bow to a system that has strict limits on words?

As long as we pay respect to anachronistic rituals, and establishment procedures, the prevailing system can be a stranglehold on the ideas that the community can discuss. Formal peer review has proven to be as corruptible as any human process, as the Climategate emails show. There is a point where we must ask, why bother?

Fracking actors « The Daily Bayonet

You can thank Ethan Hawke, Mark Ruffalo et al for your skyrocketing energy bills. That will come as a surprise to them, because I guarantee not a single celebrity in the first clip has a clue what the frak they’re talking about, and what the implications of their feelgood activism will be for ordinary people.