Re: [Phys-L] March for Science

[Bill Norwood <bnorwood111@gmail.com>]

- Does science lose credibility when the only way to get research funding
is via consent to do fraudulent research?
- Student loans and other bills must be paid.
- Medical journals are reluctant to print truths that will hurt business,
or anger their advertisers.
- This is touched on in documentary, Autism: Made in the USA.
- I wrote the transcript, and it is online.
Bill Norwood

On Mar 5, 2017 7:04 PM, "bernard cleyet" <bernard@cleyet.org> wrote:

> Do Scientists Lose Credibility When They Become Political?
>
> > On 2017/Mar/04, at 09:16, John Denker via Phys-l <phys-l@mail.phys-l.org>
> wrote:
> > On 03/04/2017 04:40 AM, Joseph Bellina wrote:
> >
> > > On Earth Day this year there will be national march for science in
> > > Washington D.C and local marches throughout the country, indeed
> > > throughout the world.   If you would like to join a local march, or
> > > start one in your community please go to
> > >
> > > https://www.marchforscience.com <https://www.marchforscience.com/>
> > >
> > > and search for local marches.
> >
> >
> > I reckon this is a very good idea.
> >
> >  FWIW, I heard a contrary argument along the following lines:
> >  "Scientists are supposed to make scientific arguments and write
> >  scholarly journal articles.  Scientists are not supposed to
> >  march in the streets."
>
>
> A new study suggests that, contrary to common fears, the answer is no.
>
> "'We have no illusions that this study will settle the debate about the
> proper role of scientists in public engagement,' says Kotcher. 'We see it
> as a first step.' He hopes that others will replicate the study under
> different conditions, and then run a meta-analysis to compare the various
> results.”
>
>
> https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/02/when-
> scientists-become-advocates-do-they-lose-credibility/
> 518157/?utm_source=nl-atlantic-daily-022817
>
>
> bc.
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