[Heartlander]

SEE ALSO: Making It All Up - The behavioral sciences scandal

[SkyDancer]

It depends on who gives the grant for what investigative study and who would benefit as to what the results are.

[sparklite2]

We live in a technological society powered by science, undergirded by the scientific method. Its benefits are obvious and everywhere ... except when it bumps up against one cherished belief or the other, then science is a big scam. Funny how that works.

[SeeSharp]

SEE ALSO: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

[tacticalogic]

Though rare, it's gratifying to see someone in the media pulling back the covers that normally hide the passions and prejudices that drive scientists, just like they do everyone else.

The media, you say?

Regularly exposing everyone's biases except for scientists, you say?

Color me skeptical.

[SeeSharp]

SEE ALSO: War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage

[DungeonMaster]

Bookmark for my college son.

[Jayster]

This is how Objectivity works with the Global Warming “alarmist” group of Scientists.

*We know that the earth is getting hot! Oh soooo very hot!

*We will do only research to prove this

*We will make up shit to prove us right and discount any and all evidence to the contrary.

*We will exploit the ignorance of the population.

[TBP]

We are born with the capacity for good choices or not — and it’s all up to the individual’s choice — not “the system.”

[JoeFromSidney]

Nobody gets a Nobel Prize for proving that someone else's research was done right. So most research is never replicated, but stays in the scientific literature like a land mine, waiting for someone to cite it as the basis for some (totally unjustified) conclusion