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The Invisible College was started in the 1600s by the Scientist Sir Robert Boyle, who made Boyle's Law. The Academy in Boyle's day had become corrupt, and depended on authorities like the Church to determine truth, rather than evidence and experiment. This held back Scientists, so they convened in the Invisible College to discuss their work, where they could prioritize empiricism and experimental data. The College went on to create a printed journal to publish their results more broadly. However, lacking trust in authorities, they needed a way to agree on which papers to include within the journal's page limit. So, they invented the peer review process — and thus created the world's first peer-reviewed journal in the process. And now, of course, peer review has overtaken the entire Academy! Peer review determines truth, allocates jobs, and allocates research funding. Yet, peer-review itself has now become corrupt and dependent upon authority. Many of us are re-joining the Invisible Col

The original Invisible College was formed in the 1600s by the Robert Boyle, who made Boyle's Law. Boyle's contemporaries were frustrated with Academia of the day, which determined truth by-authority (e.g. the Church and Aristotle) and made little room for questioning beliefs, or doing science via evidence and experimentation. Instead, Boyle's science colleagues convened on their own, outside the academic walls, and called themselves an "Invisible College", to discuss experiments and scientific questions with higher ideals not afforded by Academia. This Invisible College went on to attract…

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