[dila813]

I don’t know if scientists are having too much thought-mode or not, but they are setting the bar way too low for allowing stuff like this to enter regular scientific discussion.

It seems like a scientist writing a few paragraphs of conjecture without any data and only a random observations is enough to set the scientific journalists in to a tizzy.

Look at the dead polar bear incident..

I think what you are looking for isn’t a scientist making rogue pronouncements, but scientists doing research into things without direction in the great unknown.

So much research is either directed to politically correct research or research aimed at solving a known problem. The truly great discovers have happened when we weren’t even looking for them.

[Wonder Warthog]

"I don’t know if scientists are having too much thought-mode or not, but they are setting the bar way too low for allowing stuff like this to enter regular scientific discussion. It seems like a scientist writing a few paragraphs of conjecture without any data and only a random observations is enough to set the scientific journalists in to a tizzy."

Well, in the case of physics, I think a lot of practitioners have reached the point of putting too much faith in their equations, and not doing an adequate job of experimentation.

In the case of biologist,ecologists, "climate researchers", I think they have put their "feelings" for "unspoiled nature" ahead of their science, often to the point of out and out fraud (lynx hair incident)