> Are there really? How common is "common"? This is the first I'm hearing of it, and I'd like more than the author's word. Perhaps a study? :) Speaking from my

> Are there really? How common is "common"? This is the first I'm hearing of it, and I'd like more than the author's word. Perhaps a study? :) Speaking from my own experience in Slovakia. It may be different in other countries. > The answer has to be education - anything you can do, the "alternative science" crowd and profiteers can do, too. Unfortunately, neither I nor the essay's author seem to have a great cure-all answer for people who don't have the time, interest, or intellect to educate themselves. I don't have an answer, but a suggestion: Let's make the processes such as publishing and licensing part of scientific method rather than a matter of political discourse. We can perform experiments to find out which processes do work and which don't. Once the successful processes become a part of the canon, violating them by a publisher or a licensing board can be pointed out as not compliant with scientific method.