&gt; How do you think all those legitimate scientific journals got started?<p>The founding history of scientific journals is often amazing, involving legends in the respective fields. Then over decades those journals became &quot;legitimate&quot; by not publishing crap.<p>&gt; Every scientific pursuit started out as a pseudoscience<p>I don&#x27;t think that word means what you think it does. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pseudoscience" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pseudoscience</a>