take on a
decidedly episcopal, very unscientific, structure. Those institutions
are run by
money rather than the search for scientific facts, and the competition
can be
fierce. Scientists can troll each other
at a very sophisticated level.
Science depends
largely on government funding, which means that you and I
have our
money confiscated for "the good" of science. Indeed, researchers
openly
solicit "grant-writers" to apply for funding, because they know that
a
good
grant-writer can secure lots of money to research the mating habits of
the
purple-breasted sap-sucker, whereas an unskilled grant-writer might not secure
modest funding to develop a high probability
cure for cancer.
Political connections also dominate science. Some scientists have suddenly found
themselves
locked out of research because they asked too many embarrassing questions.
For example,
any climatologist who even innocently questions some of the data
concerning
the IPCC will be quickly silenced, threatened with loss of livelihood,
which
explains why "ALL" climatologists affirm that manmade global warming
is on the rise,
no matter
what the fluctuations in the weather are.
Money.
AIDS research was corrupted from the beginning, when US researchers plagiarized the
research of
less well-connected French researchers.
Thereafter, if a patient died of
AIDS, it was
because he had not followed the protocol, and if he survived, it was
because he
had (even if he had not). African
governments quickly began diagnosing
malaria
patients as HIV-infected, because large amounts of money quickly poured
in when they
so reported. The clinical definition of
AIDS was changed when it was
discovered
that not enough women were diagnosed as HIV-positive, so as to satisfy the
feminist
activists. Money.
These are
just two examples. There are many more.
It is the
institutions of science, and the people who run them, not science itself, that
is corrupt.
All bow
before the priests of so-called science, or lose your funding.
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