Very often, scientists of outstanding ability, who point out deficiencies in current theory or interpretation of data, are labelled as crackpots, so that their views can be conveniently ignored.

[1] The review procedure is specified as follows: The journal promotes individual academic freedom and will consider all work without regard to affiliations.

For this reason, the articles published in Progress in Physics may not necessarily represent the scientific views of the Editorial Board or its individual members.

[4] This document harshly criticizes the current peer-review system using the words "censorship", "alleged expert referees", "blacklisting", and "bribes".

The journal has published papers by several authors, who, along with some of the editors, claim to have been blacklisted by the Cornell University arXiv, as proponents of fringe scientific theories.