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Originally Posted by TGS
Mmm, but the shenanigans at the University of East Anglia does leave a nasty taste in the mouth doesn't it? And whilst the climate change lobby makes the point that the fundamental science remains unscathed, the fundamental science has been carried out by scientists who, for all we know, might be driven by the same motives that Phil Jones and his cohorts were - whatever those motives were.
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You should read Lee Smolin's "The Trouble with Physics..." the second half of the book is a pretty scathing indictment of the tenure and grant system. Not that he feels any results are untrue, but just that he thinks the system as a whole is kinda headed the wrong direction and needs some changes.