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Scientists will say whatever they need to say in order to get funding. "Science" should be looked at with as much skepticism as the media
by vinyl7 4y ago
Scientists will say whatever they need to say in order to get funding. "Science" should be looked at with as much skepticism as the media
- enchiridion 4y agoI agree. Scientific claims should be looked at with the MOST skepticism. That’s literally the point of science. Good scientific claims hold up to skepticism.
- bequanna 4y agoExactly. Good scientific claims don’t need to form a pseudo-religion around their “findings” and push to censor anyone who disagrees.
- Tagbert 4y agoVested interests that depend on oil, gas, and coal are even more motivated by funding and have definitely seeded a lot of doubt into the public discourse. This is sometimes called astro-turfing. It looks like grass but it was manufactured. People then pickup those false “facts” and misleading questions and feed it back into conversations about climate change. One of their favorite tactics is to claim that scientists only talk about climate change to get rich on funding. Scientists go into science not to make a lot of money (they don’t) they tend to go into it because they have a passion for investigating things, answering questions, and because they see big problems that they want to help solve.
- enchiridion 4y agoYou’re claiming an entire extremely diverse set of people is not motivated by money? What do you think scientists are doing when writing grant proposals?
- leaflets2 4y agoNo there was no such claim. They aren't primarily motivated by money. But the oil companies are.