[Rocky]

What, you mean scientists aren't strictly objective? Hey, maybe we ought to read between the lines with these scientific folks a little more often.

How can truth be advanced if the leaders of the discipline won't admit when they are wrong, but instead make every effort to stomp out any contradictory voices, even going so far as to conceal evidence that doesn't support their own pet theory?

[Smokin' Joe]

Unfortunately, enough governmental entities are doling out grant money to 'studies' which have politically convenient results. The remainder are funded by foundations or corporate entities with their own agendae.

Some of the sacred cows of the grant industry include: Global Warming, Motorcycle Helmets and Seat Belts, Tobacco, HIV causes AIDS, and Genetically modified Food is good for you.

This doesn't begin to touch on When is a human life a human life (Abortion) or whether homosexuality is genetic or just aberrant behaviour.

If you want balance, better find out who funded the study. Most studies whose outcomes disagree with the stance of the funding organization will be quashed, those which ask questions like "Can tobacco have beneficial effects?" will never be funded, and the former will eventually be repeated by a different researcher or team, while the first group or researcher takes up construction work to make ends meet.