Royal Society study on communication of research

The Royal Society has set up a working group on best practice for publishing research. It's pretty wide-ranging and covers issues such as inadequacies in peer review, ethics, corporate interests and more. Quote from the BBC story: "(Bateson) said it had also been suggested the process (peer review) had been used by the Establishment to prevent unorthodox ideas methods and views, regardless of their merit, from being made public".