April 05, 2005
We feel so ashamed - Scientific American
If you haven't seen it already, take a look at the article Okay, We Give Up in the April 2005 issue, in the section SA Perspectives. It changed my life - no more will I rely on the scientific method as a guide to understanding.
The article is nicely done and ends with "Get ready for a new Scientific American. No more discussions of how science should inform policy. If the government commits blindly to building an anti-ICBM defense system that can't work as promised, that will waste tens of billions of taxpayers' dollars and imperil national security, you won't hear about it from us. If studies suggest that the administration's antipollution measures would actually increase the dangerous particulates that people breathe during the next two decades, that's not our concern. No more discussions of how policies affect science either-so what if the budget for the National Science Foundation is slashed? This magazine will be dedicated purely to science, fair and balanced science, and not just the science that scientists say is science. And it will start on April Fools' Day."
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