There is absolutely nothing paranoid about systematic and well documented efforts from the oil industry to discredit scientists. > It should have much higher s

There is absolutely nothing paranoid about systematic and well documented efforts from the oil industry to discredit scientists. > It should have much higher standards Yes, but for the quality of the result, not intuitions set-up as principles to replace the real pillars of science: experimentation and peer-review. Transparency is only useful if it helps getting peers; in this case, there are well documented reasons to doubt it, and that the people benefiting from that transparency are not just enemies of science, but of humanity.