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The whole comment sounds like an admonition of a party member directed at a group of East German scientists to condemn a politically unsound one. Science has a
by cnlrate 5y ago
The whole comment sounds like an admonition of a party member directed at a group of East German scientists to condemn a politically unsound one.
Science has always worked by allowing diverging opinions, not vague accusations of "bad conduct" (the modern version of counterrevolutionary activities) and behavior.
Meanwhile, Sweden and Finland aren't doing worse than many ideologically sound countries.
- epistasis 5y agoEdit: after a bit more thought, I would like to point out that my critique was explicitly not at all like East German accusations of secret bad politics. Im critiquing specific bad science done in the open. You call these vague and political, but do not support your accusations at all. In fact, if there are "East German" type allegations anywhere in this thread, they seem to be coming from your comment, as I am not critiquing him politically at all, but your entire comment about mine is making up politics that I supposedly believe in. Oh please, it's about his bad science. If he was doing bad science in the service of politics, as you suggest, that might make it seem worse, but it's no worse. The scientific crime is the cherry picking to deceive. Any halfway honest person familiar with the studies could tell that he was doing really bad science. Why? I still don't know why he did that. But since you seem to understand the politics, maybe you could explain.
- watwut 5y agoThe accusations of bad conduct are in fact part of western science too. To large extend, because sometimes scientists behave badly, be it by making up data, hiding data, making claims they know are wrong, by attacking those who they disagree with.