[acapesket]

I pray that your fellow scientists have as much integrity as you have.

I am not confident in that prayer, sad to say.

[exDemMom]

I pray that your fellow scientists have as much integrity as you have.

I am not confident in that prayer, sad to say.

I was not talking about fraud in science, which unfortunately does happen. That is the area where integrity is important. We in the scientific community take fraud very seriously, and try to stamp it out when it occurs. It reflects badly on all of us.

If it makes you feel better, leftist kooks are not drawn to science. For them, it's like garlic to a vampire: the rigor of the scientific process and the constraint of stating only what can be demonstrated and reliably repeated by other members of the scientific community goes against their nature. They hate things that are rooted in concrete objective reality.

I should point out that there are many quacks on the web who spout sciency-sounding gibberish (usually because they want your money). But if you find a report such as the article that started this thread, that describes actual experimental data using sound methodology and is referenced back to PubMed, you can be confident that it's not quackery. When I find less than reliable "science" posted on FreeRepublic, I ruthlessly criticize it.