DragonKing Dark: Corruption of the peer review process

We need to be able to trust the gatekeepers of science. 

Science and scientific ideals are at the center of modern political warfare and science should be held to the course of political winds. We need science to be firm and accountable. But what happens when the very process that oversees acceptable science becomes corrupted? 

There is an outcry among the scientific community that this may well be happening due to a corruption of the peer review process. What is peer review and how could it be manipulated? 

That is the topic on this edition of the DragonKing Dark Podcast.

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