We hear much about how Warmist scientific papers are “peer reviewed”, as though the scrutiny of work by one grant-seeking conformist by another is somehow a good thing.

But to give a marker of how rigorous the standards of such publications are, a group of British schoolchildren have become the youngest scientists ever to have their work published in a peer-reviewed journal. In a new paper in Biology Letters, children from Blackawton Primary School report that buff-tailed bumblebees can learn to recognize nourishing flowers based on colours and patterns.

It’s written entirely in the childrens’ voices, complete with sound effects (part of the Methods section is subtitled, ”the puzzle’duh duh duuuhhh’) and figures drawn by hand in coloured pencil.

TheEye, who has had several peer-reviewed papers published in one major scientific journal (in its field), is delighted that they have beaten Emily Rosa to the record; overturning her study of Therapeutic Touch published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1998 when she was 9. She later graduated from the University of Colorado at Denver in 2009 with a major in Psychology.

But much as it’s excellent to see real science being taught in at least one school, and kudos to the children for achieving this feat, the paper has only been published because of their age. Which makes you question whether other papers on other subjects; Warmism, for example, make it through peer review on merit alone…