“Anybody with a technical or scientific background should be so
PO’d by this, they’d be about to go postal on ‘em.”
Amen. If you don’t hear more noise, most of the honest, toiling academic
scientists are generally a quiet lot (you’ve never seen anyone do
a victory dance, spray themselves with champagne, or do a rebel yell
when they get a Nobel Prize in the sciences).
The real tragedy in my view (and that of my brother who earned his
grad. degree in plant biology at U. Minnesota) is that these
“climatologists” have POISONED THE WELL.
Now even the Average Joe/Josephine will wonder if their hard-earned
tax dollars are being p-ssed away by a lot of self-serving jerks
that write their conclusions before they construct the rest of their publications.
And who won’t have a cynical arching of the eyebrows when they
hear some scientist (however honest and sincere) sing the praises
of “peer review”?
The best way to restore integrity to the scientific enterprise is
to let Senator Inhofe issue plenty of subpoenas and get as many of
“The Unindicted Co-Conspirators” on the record (under penalty of perjury).
Maybe then academic science in the USA (and maybe even elsewhere)
might regain the respect of the citizens that pony up so many tax
dollars for what should be AT THE LEAST a fairly decent human enterprise.
(No rational person ever considered it the work of a bunch of saintly monks.)
Just my $0.02 of thought and venting...
What most people don’t realize is how cowed most college science/business profs are by the vocal anti-intellectual groups on campus (black and gender studies, etc.), and how they fear for their status. They know that the president, VPs, deans, and board of trustees are dominated by the leftwing culture, and that the path of least resistance is to keep quiet when lies are being told. This was illustrated in spades during the Duke Lacrosse hoax, as poster abb can remind us.
That being said, sometimes the evidence of fraud is too overwhelming for “collegiality” to suppress. Granted, schools are relying on funding from government and many other leftwing sources, and that has a very chilling effect. Yet, these revelations might stimulate a little spine. They are so blatant and outrageous.