When scientific papers are peer reviewed, to me its meaningless unless you look into the peers who are doing the reviewing, and where their research funding comes from. When you follow the money, you will often find that they are being paid by people with an agenda.
Conversely, those in the scientific community who wont simply go along with the accepted wisdom (something any scientist worth their name, should never do), cant get any funding for their research ,and even have their careers ruined.
Ask David Bellamy or Jonny Ball. Hardly eminent scientists, but when they publicly said they were sceptical about mmcc, they disappeared from TV screens and had a vile campaign against them, to stop them from being allowed to speak to children in schools.
The message was "these men aren't safe around children". With the very obvious implications that come with that, forever in peoples minds, when their names are mentioned. People who do that to other people to stop their opinions from being heard, have something to hide, and I could never trust them.