Science and Grants (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Saturday, December 19, 2009, 16:35 (5249 days ago) @ David Turell

David,-You paint a picture of a bogeyman here; both for climate and for research. There is no Illuminati at work here. I agree however that the financial accounting should be clear, but listing predispositions of viewers? That sounds much more like 1984 than what you propose is currently being done. By announcing predispositions, you polarize people in advance. There's no equivalent to the DI on the other side of the camp, unless you count the NSF as such an entity. Bad ideas are always expelled from science by scientists, never once has an idea been debunked due to financial ties. -Though one point you bring up that I think is valid--a journal writing is always a summary of all a person's work. Why isn't there a place to deposit all raw data the scientist produced?-In my mind, think of all the potential information that is lost because the scientist thinks something is unimportant. Some outlier, etc; you know what I mean here. -THAT's the kind of thing that universities need to undertake.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"