Science has and is prostituting itself. Scientific results are determined before the research begins by whoever is financing it.
“Science has and is prostituting itself. Scientific results are determined before the research begins by whoever is financing it.”
Yes it has. Years ago I was doing research on clay chemistry mineralogy relative to lattice distances in different saline concentrations of KCl. This may seem esoteric but it has real world applications in bore hole stability when drilling an oil well. Many many weeks in the lab and with an X-Ray diffraction machine was entailed. The whole premise of my original research was wrong. I did not fudge the numbers to make it right. It was just plain damn wrong. I did discover something new and unique that was worthy of publication. I was in my last year of Geology and just wanted to get out and back to the oilfield and make money again. I did not publish as that is not an easy task and would have probably meant one more semester in school.
Some years later this same research was published by another geologist that duplicated what I had done. He did it all on his own and deserves full credit for it.
That is the way real science is done. YOU DO NOT LIE AND IF WRONG SAY IT SO OTHERS DO NOT MAKE THE SAME ERROR!
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Yes sir, fella.
Science determinations these days are almost the same as the highly paid high school football star who is coveted by the universities before "the star" produces at the college level.
Little is certain ....... it's just highly paid for.
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Yes sir, fella.
Science determinations these days are almost the same as the highly paid high school football star who is coveted by the universities before "the star" produces at the college level.
Little is certain ....... it's just highly paid for.
‘Science has and is prostituting itself.’
reminds me of Richard Kleindinst, AG for Nixon, saying ‘we will be doing a study that will prove the harmful effects of marijuana’...when asked in what sense it was a study if the results were known already, he smiled...