‘The End of Science’

Posted on March 27, 2014 by KG

‘..The vast majority of research papers are wrong, their results cannot be replicated. The researchers writing them often don’t even understand what they’re doing wrong and don’t care. Research is increasingly indistinguishable from politics. Studies are framed in ways that prove a political premise, whether it’s that the world will end without a carbon tax or that racism causes obesity. If they prove the premise, the research is useful to the progressive non-profits and politicians who always claim to have science in their corner. If it doesn’t, then it isn’t funded….’                           Daniel Greenfield

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5 Responses to ‘The End of Science’

  1. K2 says:
    March 28, 2014 at 03:22

    In the mid 80s, US science funding changed. To get your research funded, it had to be linked to something practical, beneficial – IOWs something Joe taxpayer could understand. This quickly morphed, for obvious reasons, into linking in subtle and not so subtle ways into political and commercial agendas. Which gets us where we are today, politicians and big pharma using “science” studies for their own corrupt purposes.

  2. Cadwallader says:
    March 28, 2014 at 03:56

    Carl Sagan described science as “the skeptical interrogation of the universe.” Today’s practice hardly amounts to that.

  3. Michael in Nelson says:
    March 28, 2014 at 16:43

    Explains why ‘climate change’ keeps getting government grants. :evil:

  4. William Stout says:
    March 30, 2014 at 02:43

    This is why nobody listens to the “scientists” anymore. They are little more than shills for the left these days. When I was at university, the scientists on campus were arrogant and self important. Just like a damnable politician. They stain the reputation of the giants who came before them.