Grimer writes: >But surely such behaviour is nothing new as Jed must know, since he has >read Koestler's "The Sleepwalkers". Scientists are just as corrupt as >anybody else. The idea that they are some kind of secular religious >order pursuing truth is, and always has been, risible.
Quite right. It is nothing new, and some scientists have always been this way. But at this moment in history, bad behavior fashionable. It is particularly widespread, and it lauded and rewarded, instead of being punished. These things ebb and flow. I think the trend began with the rejection of cold fusion, which brought the worst in people. Plus, science has become centralized and micro-managed by Washington, which is a culture dominated by politics. - Jed
