Secrecy is becoming the norm in science now that work, which should be in the public domain, is becoming or has the potential to become intellectual property. Also, too much science is becoming corporate hackery. Universities resist hiring scientists whose work won't attract corporate dollars.
Newton might be better, even if he was a SOB. I am working on a chapter on Newton for my book on early economists, with special emphasis on his torturing, prosecution, and execution of counterfeiters. He would have excelled in a big city police department. > > > That won't do. Over the last 3 centuries since Newton, we have > developed a certain code of ethics that anyone doing scientific work > is supposed to abide by. The climate scientists fail by any acceptable > ethical standard. You can argue that they are just a few bad apples if > you want, but please don't try and justify their behavior as somehow > acceptable. It is not. > -raghu. > > > -- > Did you hear about the dyslexic Satanist? He sold his soul to Santa. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
