Email of the Day: Science
I got an email a few days ago, won’t say from who, but it sparked my interest.
http://econospeak.blogspot.com/2008/07/science-today-easy-way-to-lie-to-public.html
I know that you guys are in the tank for science, but I found this exchange interesting, if mainly because Brenda Rosser and Bruce Webb are well known and quality.
Think on it for a second, does science help to lie to the public as an arm of the commercial interests? Particularly with greater and greater concentration and specificity of fields. I’m not saying that all scientists fall in this category, but sufficient that certain authority can be bestowed by attaching to the coattails of responsible science.
We need a greater concentration on ethics in science.
It’s a strawman. Just because some people misuse evidence and science speaks nothing to the rest.
Think on it for a second, does science help to lie to the public as an arm of the commercial interests?
No. Science is a way of discovering and analyzing. It’s a way to look at the world and not just see the beauty but explain how it all works and fits together. Science was never meant to be used for good or evil, that’s what people choose to use it for. As stated above it’s more of a way of explaining and analyzing.
We don’t just need ethics in science but all walks of life. I can think of other areas of life where no ethics has done some terrible damage.
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