I have a good friend who has been a
bio-tech scientist all his life. It was only courtesy that kept me
from asking whether he was going to make-up some new data to get new
grants.
The East Anglia-Hadley CRU debacle has appeared to throw a pall over science.
I see two realities: first the scientific community has never really made any effort to clean up all the messes that it creates. Simple proof: I contribute to nearly all the research in America with my Federal income tax, my Federal taxes extracted from the companies and banks I do business with yet I can't read any scientific finding in any published journals without paying $25 for each article. Each article that was generated with tax dollars costs me big bucks to read. If that doesn't show that the entire scientific community is self-centered, hypocritical and morally incompetent then what is the evidence to the contrary.
Moreover, probably 90% of the research I pay Federal tax dollars to support are complete failures. Much of it would be useful if it were reported but failures are never published in science. Most research is not published because it might embarrass the ego maniacal researchers. I repeat: the entire scientific community is self-centered, hypocritical and morally incompetent.
Second reality: even when the entire scientific community claims to be unified in forecasting a global disaster for more than twenty years... the political world has totally ignored the consensus scientific community. Copenhagen was a complete rejection of the dire warnings of the scientific community.
I see two realities: first the scientific community has never really made any effort to clean up all the messes that it creates. Simple proof: I contribute to nearly all the research in America with my Federal income tax, my Federal taxes extracted from the companies and banks I do business with yet I can't read any scientific finding in any published journals without paying $25 for each article. Each article that was generated with tax dollars costs me big bucks to read. If that doesn't show that the entire scientific community is self-centered, hypocritical and morally incompetent then what is the evidence to the contrary.
Moreover, probably 90% of the research I pay Federal tax dollars to support are complete failures. Much of it would be useful if it were reported but failures are never published in science. Most research is not published because it might embarrass the ego maniacal researchers. I repeat: the entire scientific community is self-centered, hypocritical and morally incompetent.
Second reality: even when the entire scientific community claims to be unified in forecasting a global disaster for more than twenty years... the political world has totally ignored the consensus scientific community. Copenhagen was a complete rejection of the dire warnings of the scientific community.
Science is not dead, but it is so weak and pathetic it is barely surviving in a wheel chair with an oxygen tank.
(Science and technology are not the same check this earlier blog and this one too.)