text: I would have advised the moderator, Jeffrey Mervis, to focus on somewhat different topics, ones that might have made the scientists a bit less comfortable: the blatant corruption of the peer-review process, particularly in climate science; the reality that much of what is published in very prominent peer-reviewed journals simply cannot be replicated; how journal editors mere mortals with biases of their own can be constrained from favoring some findings over others in the publication process; the efforts of some politicians Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) is a prominent example to criminalize dissent from climate orthodoxy through the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act statutes.