Bains says he found a welcome home at the University of Buckingham, the United Kingdom's only private university, where Charlton is a visiting professor. The university's controversial Vice-Chancellor Terence Kealey—a passionate libertarian who, according to the Guardian, "may just be the most reactionary man in Britain"—strongly supports the new journal, Bains says. "They're not likely to cave in in the face of criticism if a paper produces controversy, like Elsevier did," adds Charlton. The University of Buckingham Press publishes five other journals.

Charlton, a reader in evolutionary psychiatry at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, sits on the editorial board of the new journal, as do two other scientists who quit Medical Hypotheses's Editorial Advisory Board recently. Charlton was fired because he refused to introduce a system of peer review to Medical Hypotheses. HyLS will have its papers reviewed by an editorial panel, not unlike the system Medical Hypotheses's new editor has now adopted. "It has a similar flavor to it," says Bains. The new journal will be online only and 'open access,' with authors paying a per-page fee and papers available for free.

Bains says he won't shun articles about politically incorrect topics such as race, as long as they are "well-argued, supported by good citations to data, and with a testable hypothesis." But he won't publish the retracted paper that cost Charlton his position at Medical Hypotheses. "I didn't think it was a very good paper," Bains says. "It wasn't very well-argued."

I'm not sure about this. I suppose having a place to publish less-developed ideas could be a good thing.

SAN DIEGO%u2014Geoengineering has been a hot topic at this year%u2019s annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which publishes ScienceNOW). Science reporter Eli Kintisch chatted with Ken Caldeira, a geochemist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, California, about the latest efforts to cool the world%u2014and the possible risks of doing so. Listen to their conversation here and read Eli%u2019s full write-up on the topic here.

So, here's some real information on geoengineering. The chemtrail folks would do well to listen!