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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (7486)4/24/2009 3:56:22 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (3) of 86356
 
Hawk, we are talking about public universities. Do you think Einstein or Watson or Crick were pressured or influenced by money to come to certain conclusions. Or Steven Hawking? they do pure research.

The most unbiased research centers are the public universites doing pure reearch. Scientists are a pretty resolute lot about not allowing any influencs which might taint their research, or jumping the gun.

Einstein, Bohr, Guth, Godel, etc had no pressures to produce certain results.

The one group you cannot trust are the oil and coal companies scientists. They have a vested interest in their reearch. And a lot of money on the line.

Look the potential of global warming is a serious subject.

All the world scientists sort of work together. If the "scientific community" feels any of the big players are slanting their research, for any reason, they will be ostracized by the other scientists. This happens all the time.

And using your logic, do you think public instituions have more money or more of a reason to slant research than the oil and coal companies?

And as mentioned common sense wold tell you if there is only a 50% chance it is right, don't you think we should be going full speed ahead to find out and do something about it.

Remember when CO2 levels rose in the Permian age it wiped out 95% of all life on earth!
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