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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=546352504-30052009>Some here may have
attended Dr. Kaufman's pitch at Stanford a couple years ago.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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href="http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000114">http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio..1000114</A>#</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=546352504-30052009>This article points
out something I have been thinking for some time now, and I am seeing it more
and more, or perhaps perceiving that which was always there. We see
science matters that are clouded by politics and other considerations, to the
point where the actual science becomes irrelevant.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=546352504-30052009>A good example
was that article I posted yesterday on Bernoulli numbers, where the mainstream
press went on and on about the formula being found by a teenage Swedish
immigrant from Iraq, paragraph after paragraph in one news story after another,
but none of them would actually just write out the damn formula!
None! So how can we evaluate? I don't care who he was or where he
was from, just the formula please. It really isn't all about "See there,
immigration to Sweden is good." Politics dominated what should have been a
purely scientific article.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=546352504-30052009>Other examples, the
obvious one, evolution vs "intelligent" design.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=546352504-30052009>Anthropogenic global
warming.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=546352504-30052009>Now this
autism/vaccination link.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=546352504-30052009>It looks to me like
science is being robbed of its credibility by factors beyond our
control.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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