[jaguar]

Bruce - I started it, if anyone is to blame, it's me. The cutting and pasting is impressive but it's a poor substitute for knowing what you're talking about. The conspirital tone is the real giveaway 'the evil atheitest scientific journals are keeping us down!', what a fucking joke. The kind of journals he's talking about are if anything, the paragon of understanding and fairness.

I've got a friend that works doing x-ray crystallography at a research lab attached to Cambridge, they usually publish in smaller more topic-specific journals but one paper was important enough to be submitted to Nature. It got rejected, along with the 99% of papers submitted to Nature each month. 2 months later they got a letter from Nature and a full apology for overlooking it, the paper was published the following month. They are always on the lookout for sensational new work, if it was, it'd be published.

To suggest these institutions are involved in some kind of vast conspiricy to keep all this 'scientific' evidence of 'intelligent design' (for not-very-intelligent people) down is frankly, beyond the pale. If the paper is coming to non-scientific conclusions (therefore...GOD MADE THE EARTH IN 6 DAYS!) or is clearly pushing an agenda of course it's going to be rejected, such rubbish falls well outside what the conclusion should contain. This is commonplace from papers for all sorts of lobbies, from mobile phone safety to GM.