David Roberson <dlrober...@aol.com> wrote:
> Although your take on the subject might be the correct one, I find it > difficult to imagine that anyone with integrity would act in that manner. > The world is full of people without integrity. In academia, high & mighty professors engage in all kinds of unethical behavior, such as plagiarism. They reject papers from young researchers during peer-review, and then steal the ideas. That's how they got high & mighty. Scientists have the notion that they are especially honest and they must be truthful because the scientific method always works in the end, and falsehoods or errors will be found out. I have seen no evidence for this. Scientists get away with lying more often people in many other professions do. Programmers, farmers and even bankers are more honest, in my experience. I think Garwin is being disingenuous. I would also point to the Upton Sinclair quote Axil noted: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" - Jed
