[vixen99]

I'm not sure about 'seldom' but what do I know? However the point is taken in that lots of people know this if not the metrics involved but when anyone questions the Establishment, too often the response is 'follow the science' and then they are sidelined or cancelled from areas of public discourse. Of course some of these questions and comments might amount to nutty nonsense or personal aggrandizement in which case it's open to others to demonstrate this. Isn't this most effectively done by skipping the smart rhetoric and dealing with the facts of the matter? This then leads to searching counter-questions for the initial questioner - great!

Incidentally might there not be the odd new idea buried in one of the two million publications published in around thirty thousand journals every year? Who knows?