In a certain sense the scientific community has always been a cartel. It wouldn't work otherwise. This is precisely the element that was missing in antiquity wh

In a certain sense the scientific community has always been a cartel. It wouldn't work otherwise. This is precisely the element that was missing in antiquity when we talk about knowledge, science, and the intellectuals of that time. There's no such monopoly on statements and this is why all the 'scientific' work back then is philosophico-theological in nature. Aristotle's zoology fundamentally derives down the chain of existence from a First Mover, his works Of The Soul (his theory of mortal things) and Metaphysics (his theory of non-mortal things) are all a single continuum.