When "Science" Plays Politics
by
ebenezer
on Tue 28 Feb 2006 08:21 AM CST |
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Michael
Fumento reminds us that not everything that appears in science
journals is science, or at least good science.
LAST May, a Korean
report in Science magazine prompted headlines around the world by
declaring it had made tremendous advances in the heretofore
disappointing field of embryonic-stem-cell (ES cell) research. News
that it was faked has now prompted much soul-searching in media land.
"How could we have been fooled?" reporters are asking themselves in
print. . . .
Read the whole thing to see the
recent examples he cites.