El Opinador Compulsivo

Más sobre el escándalo de la manipulación y ocultamiento de datos del global calenting, de Dolores.

Aparentemente algunos “medios serios” se ocupan del tema.

Esto es lo que pasa cuando se utiliza la ciencia con fines políticos. Michael Crichton lo explica muy bien en su ensayo Alien Cause Global Warming. Si tienen dos minutos no se lo pierdan, altamente recomendable:

Once you abandon strict adherence to what science tells us, once you start arranging the truth in a press conference, then anything is possible. In one context, maybe you will get some mobilization against nuclear war. But in another context, you get Lysenkoism. In another, you get Nazi euthanasia. The danger is always there, if you subvert science to political ends.

That is why it is so important for the future of science that the line between what science can say with certainty, and what it cannot, be drawn clearly-and defended.