www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/08/thank_you_for_polluting.php

Eileen... Can you give this a read? What are your opinions on peer review as the absolute catch-all for 'Good Science' as that Gibbon's guy seems to believe?

(I'm thinking about your description of funding meetings as power games.)

Politics and politicking in science isn't a new thing. So many conflicts between science and government/religion spring to mind that it's dizzying.