My statement was made without position on politics nor did I mention an administration or my own personal predilection to a given affiliation. Believe it or not

My statement was made without position on politics nor did I mention an administration or my own personal predilection to a given affiliation. Believe it or not I voted for George W Bush. But you might want to be careful before you drown in that pool of hypocrisy you just waded into. You see in our country there is this little thing called the first amendment, and while science journals have governing bodies they are not in the purview of the governed. There is nothing to say that what anyone prints is true, your party made sure of that when they eviscerated the fairness doctrine. Additionally, science journals and businesses paying for printing articles is a tradition as old as time and one that respectable science journals have worked around using a system of rating known as impact factor. Far be it from me to inform you that pay for play journalism is one of the factors that lead to bad ratings from the scientific community. However, everyone is entitled to a free press and that includes pay for play shady journals owned by big tobacco. But do NOT lay the blame for that at the feet of science. We've done what we can to ensure journalistic integrity by rates and measures and its not a perfect system but we're not and have not been willfully pushing misinformation out the door. Pay for play is, has been, and will continue to be a blight on science literature because we do live in a society that has freedom of the press. Anyone is entitled to print anything regardless of factual content. Respectable scientific journals at least have a system in place to punish those who abuse the system. So at least educate yourself on the basis of journal integrity while you reply to my comment on a machine that was built entirely on the edifice of science.