Wesley J. Smith wrote The New Inquisition: Ideology’s Corruption of Science. He quotes from a WSJ editorial:

As anonymous reviewers of choice for certain journals, Mr. Mann & Co. had considerable power to enforce the consensus, but it was not absolute, as they discovered in 2003. Mr. Mann noted in a March 2003 email, after the journal “Climate Research” published a paper not to Mr. Mann’s liking, that “This was the danger of always criticising the skeptics for not publishing in the ‘peer-reviewed literature’. Obviously, they found a solution to that—take over a journal!”

HT: Clare

So go slow with the peer review mantra and be careful what you ask for. You just might get it. More from the WSJ:

Mr. Mann went on to suggest that the journal itself be blackballed: “Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal. We would also need to consider what we tell or request of our more reasonable colleagues who currently sit on the editorial board.” In other words, keep dissent out of the respected journals. When that fails, redefine what constitutes a respected journal to exclude any that publish inconvenient views.

Tsk. Tsk. We don't need dissent. Not with billions of green investments at stake. And don't mess with that giddy feeling engendered by new regulations. Of course it's all about science. Quoting Wesley:

That’s it in a nutshell. Mann wasn’t practicing science but seeking to institutionalize his ideology in a socially fascistic manner. And the same thing happens on university and college campuses across the country and around the world, where the loudest brayers about academic freedom are often the very ones who refuse to hire, or deny tenure to, scholars with whom they disagree.

Standing up for free and unfettered exchanges of views? Must be a tard.

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