Richard Lindzen

Yeah.

You have that.

Great.

There they are.

Not quite.

It's not the same.

The 1929 had the Curie's.

But I mean, I wondered at times, you know, when you had the Soviet competition with the U.S.

and they were the first ones into space.

And we suddenly began a program to get more and more kids to get into STEM.

That has its downside.

First of all, you're going to dilute the field if you increase it too much.

And the second thing is with peer review.

I mean, peer review is new.

I mean, it wasn't that common before World War II.

But people have pointed out it has its virtues, but you can see the Royal Meteorological Society, for instance, used to give you instructions, and the instructions were you can only reject a paper

If there is a mathematical error that you can identify, or if it's plagiarized, it's repeating something that already exists.

And that was pretty fair, because how is a reviewer supposed to decide if a new theory is right or not, or so on?

That's asking too much of that.

But today, peer review is almost a process to enforce conformity.