Humans are naturally persuaded by consensus. But this leaves us vulnerable to manipulation based on phony agreements established through corruption, coercion and the censorship of contrary voices. If you want to know what’s really going on, read the books they wish to burn.
https://twitter.com/RWMaloneMD/status/1449142757335863297
This paper passed "peer review" and was then mysteriously removed from the web--without notice to the authors. What is clear is that someone or some thing doesn't want it read and discussed in public. We beat censorship by making it backfire: archive.is/mwcEG
The censoring publisher is Elsevier. That's the (family) name of Galileo's publishing house. The modern Elsevier (founded 1880) proclaims this heretical heritage proudly, along with its support of Jewish scholars being persecuted by the Nazis.
Their logo, says Elsevier, is Socrates beneath a tree of knowledge, climbed by a vine--the connectedness symbolizing the interdependence of scholar and publisher. There is a beautiful irony in their misunderstanding of the parasitic nature of vines. Makes the logo all the better. 
They argue the scholar is the vine, in need of the tree for support, the tree (publisher) needing the vine to produce fruit--a tortured, rotten apple of a metaphor if I've ever heard one.
The final irony, in light of their abandonment of courageous, heterodox authors facing coercive orthodoxy, is "Non Solus", Elsevier's motto, which is supposed to be about standing together. It must be like "Don't Be Evil" for publishers or something.
.@HeatherEHeying and I discussed the removal of this paper, an example of the demolition-of-dissent, on yesterday's DarkHorse Livestream #100. The specific matter comes up somewhere around 34 minutes in.
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