Pseudoscience to be offered as a degree program at MIT
Ok so it’s not, but if there is any truth to this joint study by the Union of Concerned Scientists and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility it may as well be. In the report, over half of the countries Fish and Wildlife Service employees claimed to have been pressured into falsifying scientific data regarding endangered species to make life easier for corporate interests.
More than half of the biologists and other researchers who responded to the survey said they knew of cases in which commercial interests, including timber, grazing, development and energy companies, had applied political pressure to reverse scientific conclusions deemed harmful to their business.
Now before I get my feathers all ruffled here, I’d like everyone to take note of the groups charged with this study, Union of Concerned Scientists and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility? Something tells me, and this is just a hunch, that the folks over at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility might have an agenda when it comes to, oh I don’t know, let’s say Environmental Responsibility? BUT, assuming that there is some truth to this report, we as a country can begin to consider ourselves scientifically screwed. There is nothing worse in the international scientific community than being viewed as having science for the sake of the state, pseudoscience. This is what happened to the Cold War Soviet scientific community and they as a group are still fighting to regain their credibility. We have already taken major hits in perception due to the Bush administrations policies on stem cell research and alternative fuel research. To bring something like this to lab is no good.
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