All new technologies take a long time to start up. Internet voting saves paper, not to mention ballot counting time. The sheer ease of use for computer owners will make up for the high error potential- after all, who notices who runs our country? Besides the citizens. And the strongly US-linked international economy.

Is how he posts through the roar of highway noise. Then again, his parents will never force him to turn of the computer and go outside.

It is possible. But in many occasions it takes a ridiculously long time. Aether, geocentric solar system, aristotles belief in the four elements... the list goes on.

I didn't think about that. Thank you for correcting me. I meant that many types of scientific research are not discussed beyond their own academic communities.

Scientific misconduct and other types of misconduct have different effects. If an engineer turned out sub-par work, it would not perform properly, forcing him to correct it. Scientific fraud is much harder to find, though no less important, because it has no real world affects.

Scientists have falsified data since the dawn of scientific discovery. The real qualifier is for what reason. Inventing a completely bogus substance with obviously impossible properties and no proof is accepted, even lauded, when it shores up shaky Newtonian proofs in relatavistic physics, but when a a major corporation pays for it it becomes unacceptable. The only way to promote scientific integrity is to have private, biased companies fund all scientific research, so bad ideas are shot down by an angry scientific community. Of course, there is a chronic lack of ability in science to find the bad ideas...

The same technique has already been used for Huntingtons. The monkeys with the damaged genes are glow-in-the-dark. Although admittedly slightly disturbing, the technology has already proved valuable in fighting disease.