Comment Re:I love the double standards (Score 1) 787
Scientists, as you say, are self-interested jerks. In medicine, studies which contradict drug-company studies tend to get buried.
So what you are saying is that studies funded by drug companies can find results that the drug companies do not approve of. Doesn't that mean that the Science behind the studies is sound and objective, while the larger corporate body is what perverts the results? How does that contribute to your statement that scientists are self-interested jerks?
In schools in the '70s and '80s, we were teaching kids that the Earth was headed for an oncoming ice age.
Since you bring up the topic of kids being taught about an oncoming ice age, you might be interested to read a modern interview with the scientist whose work was the basis of the media-led "global cooling" campaign of that time period: Q&A: Dr. Stephen Schneider - One of the world's leading climatologists discusses the line between science and activism .
A simple mistake which was later corrected, but now gets to appear in every anti-climate-change debate as proof that all climate scientists are dumb and shouldn't be trusted.