[exDemMom]

As someone who does quite a bit of research myself I know how easily “findings”can be skewed if the person conducting the investigations makes up their mind on what the solution or causation of a particular problem is and then begins assimilating evidence UNobjectively to “prove” their “theory”.

That might be a problem for criminal investigations, but it is not scientific method. Attempts to conduct research in order to "prove" a desired result cannot go very far. That's because science progresses by building on past work. If that past work is not accurate, then the hypotheses that drive current work are incorrect, and results of experiments based on those hypotheses will be unusable. There simply won't be a basis on which to base future research.

Much of the process of getting an MS or PhD in science is to learn how to minimize bias.

[jsanders2001]

> Attempts to conduct research in order to "prove" a desired result cannot go very far.

Can you explain this to the Obama Inquistion then?

[poconopundit]

And one of the worse fake science texts was Al Gore's book, An Inconvenient Truth...