Posted on 06/04/2009 12:30:08 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
28% of your comment is unsupported by the other 3%.
“To someone who is as suspicious as I am of Obama’s Marxist ambitions for this country, I see this as one more chess move to undo our conventional electoral process so that we ultimately it will no longer have a recognizable representative democracy.”
Well, it would be difficult to be too suspicious of Hussein Schickelbama’s ambitions, I’ll give you that.
As someone who has worked in academe for 30 years, I am not impressed by the ethics of intellectuals. They are probably more dishonest than the average person and much better at rationalizing their behavior. They also seem to have the attitude that they are smarter than everyone else and thus the normal rules of society don't apply to them.
It is this arrogance which would lead them to falsify data because they are so convinced of the truth of their theory that the data which disproves it must be false. Of course, there are also those little issues of amassing a publication record, securing grants, getting cited by others, building a reputation, getting promoted, securing a chaired professorship, landing lucrative consulting engagements, etc. Any of these can provide the incentive for a little fudging.
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