Not just authoritarian, very political. - you publish mine and I'll publish yours etc. The system of blind refereeing just encourages this. One of the reasons why new information channels like Wikipedia are interesting - everything is out in the open (or should be). 
But getting back to causal learning and machine learning, I just put up (today) a new Wikipedia page that deals with both of these. See: Logico-linguistic modeling. Its a lot easier to read than the stodgy papers at my author's page. Its still an unreviewed article so, if you could take a look at it, you would be doing me a favour.