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Similar food for thought was found by the Union of Concerned Scientists
in a survey of US Fish & Wildlife Service biologist. The summary is
here...
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_environment/rsi/page.cfm?pageID=1601
><-----Original Message----->
>From: Jonah Cohen
>Sent: 6/8/2005 5:03:12 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Scientists behaving badly
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>I can't really judge from this article how serious the "minor
misconducts"
>were, but food for thought:
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>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050608/ap_on_sc/misbehaving_scientists
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>Jonah Cohen
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>Outreach & Public Programs Manager
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>Science Center of Connecticut
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>"Everybody knows the end products of scientific investigation because
>everybody uses them, but few know the stages by which these end
products
>have developed. Many see only what is on top. They accept, for example,
the
>blessings of our knowledge of germs as the chief source of disease;
they use
>a large variety of chemical compounds without knowing the meaning of
>chemistry; they admire skyscrapers, great bridges and other complicated
>structures not knowing how Galilieo laid the firm foundation of the
laws of
>forces without which these structures could not be safely erected.
There are
>millions of otherwise intelligent people whose outlook on the world is
>essentially that of the Middle Ages. A large number confuse science and
>pseudo-science and are easy game for all kinds of quackery purporting
to
>cure bodily ills. The people of a sovereign state attempt to settle by
>referendum the question of whether man is a product of organic
evolution;
>for them to attempt a popular verdict on the Einstein theory would be
no
>less absurd."
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>-Scientific American, July, 1929
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