If the &#x27;shills&#x27; are wrong, then the peer review should take care of them.<p>The whole problem that this proposal is trying to eliminate is a combined problem of discrimination (for various reasons) and cargo-cult&#x2F;groupthink; calling someone a &#x27;shill&#x27; is an example of at least the first of these issues.<p>If the peer review process cannot successfully refute claims in a paper, and has to resort to name-calling, that is a sign that the reviewers are either incompetent or lazy (, and that there may be fundamental flaws in the peer review system).