Science and Grants (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 19:00 (5455 days ago)

Climategate may be all about the money. If the alarm is loud enough, then the cry for grants can be louder and more lucrative. Yes, we have had a warming trend since 1970, but 1934 was the warmest American year in the last century. 1998 was second. After the 30's there was a distinct cooling trend until the 70's. In the early 70's Newsweek had an article about the next ice age probably on its way.-Peer review and huge government grants make for easy scientific collusion. This article shows Michael Mann's grants from 2006 onward totalled $4,165,000. He is the debunked 'hockey stick' author.-
http://spectator.org/blog/2009/12/02/manns-mad-money-An article showing why the Climategate emails are so damning:-http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/5632946/why-those-emails-are-lethal.thtml-And a daily Mail article in the same tone:-http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1235395/SPECIAL-INVESTIGATION-Climate-change-emails-row-deepens--Russians-admit-DID-send-them.html-Moral: the current system of scientific discovery is dangerously concentrated by government grant money control. I have discussed this before, and I see the same pattern in Darwin research. We need to trust the findings and the conclusions, with full exclosure of all original data, to 'agreers' and skeptics alike.