We've gotten some encouraging responses to the ACSH report on Scrutinizing Industry-Funded Science:
¢ ¢ ¢
We seem to agree on the major issues.
My commentaries on this subject add one essential point: focusing on experimenters and analysts rather than on data and methods subverts the very foundations of the scientific process, destroying the single distinguishing factor that has allowed science to achieve progress that no other human endeavor can boast. This misguided focus actually destroys, rather than enhances the quest for objectivity, bringing science down to the level of politics, where subjectivity rules. And we thought the "dark ages" could not occur again in a technological...