Science Debate 2008 - Slashdot(global warming facts)

You are right to analogize the current science reporting with 50's reporting on communist regimes, but history isn't science. Not to mention that private funding will always focus on the topics that will lead to business-applicable technologies soonest, as opposed to general research that will open up entirely new segments of science altogether, which is a long term benefit. Stem cells and evolution are the obvious, but science plays a major role in the abortion and gay rights debate (assuming people think instead of react). As long as government funds science, then science will be political. So I put it to you that, by taking a skeptical position, some of these anti-science people are in fact more faithful to the underpinnings of science than those people who arrogantly call themselves scientists. read more

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