| > The fact that politics exists doesn't provide particular evidence that any widely held scientific view is incorrect. I never said that it did. You're the one claiming that a political process, namely funding, is a strong indicator of scientific truth. Or, are you still arguing that funding isn't political? >> When I hear "scientists" arguing that folks should be put in jail for disagreeing with them > What? Where? "In my opinion, these CEOs should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature." http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2008/TwentyYearsLater_20080623... > > When I hear "scientists" say that they're not going to release data to folks "who want to prove them wrong" > Um what? I'm still looking for that cite. (While looking for the incident that I was referring to, I found suggestions that Mann et al, the authors of the "Hockey Stick" paper haven't released their methodology, but that wasn't the one that I was looking for.) |
This was a single instance of somebody speaking as a private citizen about people being tried (not specifically jailed) for their -->ACTIONS<-- assuming they knew exactly what they where doing. This is comparable to people now calling for the CEO's of cigarette companies to be convicted for knowingly surpressing evidence that smoking was harmful.