When They Tell You The Science Is In, It Never Is

[Aloysius]

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-e...3d2e968f6d

 

 

More of the same damning expose of non scientific propaganda being protected by the vested interests - James Cook University - they are shooting the messenger!!!

 

"After attempting to blow the whistle on what he found — healthy corals — Professor Ridd was censured by James Cook University and threatened with the sack."

 

"His crime was to encourage questioning of two of the nation’s leading reef institutions, the Centre of Excellence for Coral Studies and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, on whether they knew that photographs they had published and claimed to show long-term collapse of reef health could be misleading and wrong."

 

"His potential downfall is the ­result of a long campaign for better quality assurance standards for ocean and reef research, which has come under fire globally for exaggerating bad news and ignoring the good. "

 

"“Is there a chance that many marine scientists are partially driven by ideology? Is there a chance that peer review among this group is self-selecting of the dominant idea? Is there a robust debate without intimidation?”

<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman', sans-serif;font-size:19px;">Professor Ridd wants an independent agency to check the science before governments commit to spending hundreds of millions of dollars."

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<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman', sans-serif;font-size:19px;">So there you have it: apparently there are scientists and then there are "scientists"  The difficulty for the layperson is that it may not be immediately clear which is which.

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<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman', sans-serif;font-size:19px;">Are they real scientists or are they the scientific equivalent of the old fashioned snake oil salesman?

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<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman', sans-serif;font-size:19px;">In the light of this, which "Science" is purportedly in?

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<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman', sans-serif;font-size:19px;">PS It is prudent to remember that funding is driven by making people afraid and then demanding that the public purse be debited with funding their "research"

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<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman', sans-serif;font-size:19px;">Research will not do anything to fix any GBR problem it will merely provide questionable quantification.