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       "Tinker, tailor, publisher, spy: how Robert Maxwell created the academic peer review system"Spook Daddy built the peer review system?  Details lacking but intriguing."If it was the intelligence services (British and/or Russian) that bankrolled Pergamon Press, their motive could have been to ensure control of knowledge following the tremendous advances of the Second World War (such as nuclear physics and weapons of mass destruction). Maxwell’s choice of name for the publisher is interesting. The ancient site of Pergamon was allegedly the locus of Satan’s throne (Revelation, 2:12), and a cynic might suggest that Maxwell’s peer review system would turn science from Enlightenment to a new Dark Age.A ploy of Maxwell was to label his journals as global: instead of the parochial ‘British Journal of…’ it was always ‘International Journal of….’ In 1991 Maxwell sold his academic publishing empire to the Dutch publisher Elsevier for £440 million. By then he had achieved his – and perhaps his secret sponsors’ – goal of a globally controlled academic press."{PS One of the commentators notices that the purchaser just happens to have been the major corporate which was sponsoring a security drill in London on the day of 7/7.  A drill which then "went live".}https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/30/tinker-tailor-publisher-spy-how-robert-maxwell-created-the-academic-peer-review-system/