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đź“š Robert Maxwell & Peer Review as a Control Mechanism
Robert Maxwell—a flamboyant, controversial media magnate—acquired Pergamon Press in the early 1950s. He aggressively launched hundreds of scientific journals and, as early as 1951, pioneered the commercial use of institutional peer review .
Though widely lauded, this innovation also functioned as a gatekeeping system:
Maxwell’s rapid expansion meant academic journals became profitable commercial products
As you know, his now infmaous daughter, Ghislane, who was a helicopter pilot and submarine pilot, amazing girl, who also entrapped other girls in fairly abusive sex plots.
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The new “peer review” model vetted manuscripts through external reviewers—effectively enforcing existing consensus and filtering out disruptive ideas
Critics argue peer review, in this form, became a tool to reinforce dominant paradigms and control narratives
So, when the speaker says “peer review is a myth” and tied it to Robert Maxwell and Pergamon/Elsevier’s control of journals like The Lancet and Nature, he’s pointing to how the system can be rigged to suppress innovation, consolidate influence, and favor establishment viewpoints.