[KennyBlanken]

A huge swath of the scientific publishing community - including several journals for which geology is only a fraction of the fields they cover - engaging in a conspiracy to is a pretty extraodinary claim.

You have not produced extraordinary evidence - or even evidence at all.

You also don't provide the motive for such a conspiracy.

The kicker: you claim the USGS is leading the charge in shutting down all prediction research, yet the only page you cite is to USGS page which includes a link to a group that engages in prediction experiments: https://www.scec.org/research/csep

[teleforce]

I'm just saying we cannot even get past the editors of proper journal and pre-print server arXiv for a proper review of the paper after many submissions, is it not a red flag?

Have you seen any USGS sponsored journal with special issue on earthquake prediction?

Have you have heard any earthquake early detection and prediction competition in the US, not unlike the yearly Computing in Cardiology (CINC) competition for the improvement of CVDs early detection and prediction?

[1]George B. Moody PhysioNet Challenge:

https://moody-challenge.physionet.org/2024/

https://www.cinc2024.org