Feb 08 2010
New Episodes Of Scientists Behaving Badly
Scandals keep pouring from the laboratories. This Wall Street Journal editorial highlights three recent science scandals regarding science and politics. A British case of a medical journal retraction of a landmark article about association between vaccines and autism, the exposure of the Climategate emails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, and guilty plea from the Massachusetts pain researcher that admitted to fabricating research in as many as 21 journal articles. –mj: While this is an editorial, it is a difficult reality of our current times. As I have noted frequently, the future horizons in green economic projections are based on technologies that do not exist commercially yet. While this works for economics, the same numbers do not work for regulatory law.
