[Gaffer]

This type of study is called “academic political opportunism” aimed at getting more grant money, paid research from government, etc. It is the worst kind of academic fraud.

[mylife]

Its called academic mental masturbation.

[ccmay]

This type of study is called “academic political opportunism” aimed at getting more grant money, paid research from government, etc. It is the worst kind of academic fraud.

Scientists are human too. They want money, they want prestige, and they want power-- or at least to see their own political ideologies ascendant.

Jumping on the global warming bandwagon, no matter how tenuous the connection to their own research, nets them all three.

-ccm

[aimhigh]

Neanderthals may have died out . . that suggest . . the theory . . could have caused Neanderthals . . might explain . . Neanderthals are thought to have evolved . . It is thought they died out . .

In six months this will be written as fact in high school text books.