re: #375 nyc redneck

it is so wrong that politics and money has crept so much, into the once sacred realm of science.
how many scientists are altering their findings to fit in w/ the prevailing beliefs of the moment?

I wouldn’t accuse anyone of altering their findings, which would be clearly unethical; if anything, it’s more a case of self-censorship. Imagine that you’d found evidence (from, say, gene expression studies, i.e., not social science crap) suggesting that racial groups in fact differed genetically in intelligence. Would you be in a big hurry to publish that, or do you think you might want to let that baby mellow in a file cabinet for a while? That’s the sort of thing I’m talking about.