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Once you start playing "the ends justify the means," you're not doing science anymore.
by jbellis 17y ago
Once you start playing "the ends justify the means," you're not doing science anymore.
- crux_ 17y agoI'm not sure where means/ends comes from. My point was that politicization alone accounts for the tone and content of the internal correspondence on display, regardless of the soundness of the actual science.
- jbellis 17y agoIt sounds an awful lot like you were arguing by analogy that it's okay to conspire to hide or even fudge your data if you are a Right Thinking Person defending the world from Evil Polluters. Ends, means.
- crux_ 17y agoI included the second part of the thought experiment specifically to prevent creating that impression. Guess it didn't work.