the scientists would say hey I think more people should have access to this so we'll put together a little publication, nonprofit, and we'll just make sure everybody sees it. So that's the way it used to be apparently. Today the vast majority of scientific studies are in for-profit publications. For-profit publications. Do you see the problem already? The for-profit publications want to publish as much as possible and charge as much as possible. They can charge you up to like a million dollars a year if you're a big university just to have their papers. And once you make it for-profit, don't you think they're going to accept a lot of papers that wouldn't have been accepted otherwise? Don't you think? And I think that's exactly what's happening.

So as long as the industry is incentivized by the number of studies that get published you're going to get a lot more fake studies because they're going to sort of, even if they don't say so you can imagine that they would lower their standard because everybody's got their own objectives for their job. You know there's going to be some editor who can't publish the magazine without a lot of studies in it. So the more studies the more money. I think they're going to get a little looser than what they accept. So that seems to be an enormous problem in science right now. And I don't think that there's a solution to it. I don't believe anybody's recommended any kind of solution. But at this point if you were to draw this system up on paper you would know that this is going to lead to massive corruption. It's designed right into the system. You know as long as you follow the money you've got to assume they're going to accept more than they would have otherwise anyway.

So as you know the Congress can't make any decisions on budgets so they do these continuing resolution things that just say ah we'll keep the budget basically the way it was because we can't decide but we'll decide later. And so that's what the Republicans are trying to do. But Democrats point out, you know Adam Schiff pointed this out, this is not a normal continuing resolution because it's not just continue on. The Republicans made some fairly Republican changes. So spending more on national defense for example. But the total amount is essentially what it was. So the continuing resolution part where it's just we keep the same budget amount, that's at least they kept that. But within the details they did move stuff around in a Republican way.

So now it looks like there might be some question whether the Democrats will support it in the Senate. And Schumer saying it doesn't have the votes. But then John Thune, the Senate leader, he's going to do a cloture. He's going to go for a cloture vote. How many of you know what that is, cloture? I had to ask my AI what it was just to make sure. I thought I sort of knew but it means that they're going to go for a vote. They would say they're going to limit the debate and then they got to vote. And I guess you need 60 senators to say th