Posted on 01/17/2015 7:34:17 PM PST by Lorianne
Team calls for more scepticism in marine research.___ The state of the world's seas is often painted as verging on catastrophe. But although some challenges are very real, others have been vastly overstated, researchers claim in a review paper. The team writes that scientists, journals and the media have fallen into a mode of groupthink that can damage the credibility of the ocean sciences. The controversial study exposes fault lines in the marine-science community.
Carlos Duarte, a marine biologist at the University of Western Australia in Perth, and his colleagues say that gloomy media reports about ocean issues such as invasive species and coral die-offs are not always based on actual observations. It is not just journalists who are to blame, they maintain: the marine research community “may not have remained sufficiently sceptical” on the topic.
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gloomy media reports ,What , the Media are the Best Scientists ,LOL
It’s those brain dead actors—Al Gore, Ted Danson, DeCaprio and the rest of their ilk. All those dire predictions have never come true. Do we ever hear about that? No. The dinosaur media exists for one reasonâ— to further their own existence come hell or high water. Never let the truth get in the way of your agenda.
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>> The team writes that scientists, journals and the media have fallen into a mode of groupthink that can damage the credibility of the ocean sciences.
Daniel Cressey keeping a politically safe distance from “the team.”
Group-think is dangerously political and is damaging the perceptive value of science. Thankfully, the “skeptics” are fighting group-think.
Science demands entropy! Fight group-think!
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