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