How reliable is science? --Anthropology (The limitations of science)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Sunday, April 15, 2012, 19:15 (4603 days ago) @ David Turell

Well, I honestly think in most of these cases it has MUCH more to do with pride than money. 
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> > I'm not trying to overly downplay money--it's always a powerful driver, but watching the people that are in grad school with me... they're not money grubbing assholes. 
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> > I'm also not trying to write off what "bad" scientists are doing, but I totally understand why things like this happen.
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> I'll grant you the pride/ego part in ivory towers but we are talking about business-driven cancer research. These folks with Ph.D.s are on hire to produce money-making drugs. And they are paid well. Money will always beat pride as a force.-Another:-http://www.nndb.com/people/593/000203981/-{There's a long history of mathematicians eschewing prizes, back to antiquity. However the russian dude is preventing me from finding the historical list.}

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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.\"