Quote:That's the whole point of peer-review; to weed out bad or inconsistent science.
H. L. Mencken pointed out that a similar tactic is used in theology.
Quote:Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines of rival sects, and to denounce the divines themselves as theological quacks.
The main difference is that preachers use rhetoric and not facts.