The problems with today's scientific research establishment go far beyond financial conflicts of interest, or climate science.<p>Sociologically speaking, science and scientists are a huge established church and priesthood.<p><i>Supposedly</i> 99.97% honest, self-policing...and amazingly hesitant to accept real outside oversight.<p>If you want a sense for how well that self-policing thing actually works out - do a search for "Roman Catholic Church abuse".
Good questions were asked.<p>Also, the discrepancies with other areas of research should be worrying:<p>> None of the 331 authors disclosed COIs [(Conflicts of Interest)]. Not a single one.<p>> This is surprising because:<p>> COI disclosures in other areas of research, such as bioscience, range from about 17% to 33%;