Science and Grants (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, December 22, 2009, 13:51 (5449 days ago) @ David Turell


> Disclosure of the financial arrangements is not the point. The point is the massive amounts of money in the current grant system will twist some people's scruples. They will try to destroy rivals, or block them in peer group reviews. Humans are not nice folks. The current system itself raises the problems. And this will occur even where it is pure science without product development.-Just discovered a UK news story (Telegraph) that suggests strongly, my follow the money theories are correct:-http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6847227/Questions-over-business-deals-of-UN-climate-change-guru-Dr-Rajendra-Pachauri.html