Government science complex (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, December 18, 2012, 15:38 (4359 days ago)

Like the military industrial complex Eisenhauer warned about as he left office there is a government grant science complex which creates income for folks who work in science. We have discussed this before. And some of them are crooks and fabricate results that cannot be repeated. In some cases it appears to be sloppy work. Peer review will not catch this.-http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/33695/title/Top-Science-Scandals-of-2012/-http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/33719/title/Science-s-Reproducibility-Problem/-Reasons: maintaining income, improving status, or following an agenda such as Michael Mann and the 'hockey stick' misinterpretation of tree ring data to prove global warming.