The solution is obvious, and it's modeled elsewhere in society. Movies have critics that assign zero to five stars. Juries either sentence you to death or send

The solution is obvious, and it's modeled elsewhere in society. Movies have critics that assign zero to five stars. Juries either sentence you to death or send you home. Facebook asks visitors to vote thumbs up or down. We need a panel of scientifically skilled and trained (meaning very skeptical) people to maintain a changing database of scores that rank individual research projects as well as scientific and pseudoscientific fields. I would have suggested public voting, but the average citizen doesn't understand either science or the central role of skepticism. Central to a scientific outlook is the assumption that an idea is false until it's supported by reliable evidence, the exact opposite of the outlook of the man on the street. Whoa! Already I have a more entertaining idea -- set up two databases, one that reflects popular opinion, another that reflects the views of scientifically trained people. Then, mostly for laughs, see how they differ.