This is an interesting document, outlines strategies for dissenting scientists. Almost a handbook for deniers:

http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_12_4_martin.pdf

Here's how to circumvent consensus and bring down mainstream science:

• Mimic orthodox science
• Aim at lower status outlets (eg - c-lister journals that still get you peer review status)
• Enlist patrons
• Seek a different audience (this is what the blogosphere was invented for)
• Expose suppressions of dissent
• Build a social movement

An interesting read John.

And probably very good advice for scientists who are dissenters to the mainstream view in some field who are eventually proved correct - Bacteria cause Ulcers for example.

Unfortunately it is also good advice for dissenters to the mainstream view in some field who are eventually proved incorrect.