On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 1:41 PM Deepa Agashe <[email protected]> wrote: > On the other hand, where would any of us be without drug companies producing > antibiotics and painkillers?
I am not anti-science - obviously a great many things are better off due to it, and I owe my own life to science but at the same time science has to be like Caesar's wife, or Rama's wife - above suspicion - since it is the champion of its age - and it isn't. There must be a science multiplier effect to penalties - fraud in science must be penalized higher than fraud in other fields. Those scientists with a suspicious publication record must be outed. A purge? A detox? Science needs something, or the force of public opinion will shift to less desirable systems.
