Quote:
Originally Posted by PlayadelSoul
Science is all about money. If you are in an art that no one knows about, the funding is slim. Create a crisis, and bam! All kinds of dough. New offices, new labs, new computers, the whole ball of wax. You can even retire from the lab and start a company to help fix the problem that you invented in the first place. Or, sit on the board of directors, even.
Now, money is not unlimited. Governments have to decide who gets what. So, every extra dollar or Euro that goes to climate study means a dollar less for some other area of science (maybe the cure for whatever ails me).
|
Are there scientists on the IPCC accused of ethics violations? Academics, especially those in the natural sciences, tend to be rather fastidious about research results to avoid these very kinds of conflicts of interests you are talking about. Many of the links and articles from this thread originally appeared in peer reviewed science journals, which is usually an indication that political bias would not be tolerated...
