H.R. 1030 (The Secret Science Bill)

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(07-19-2015, 12:11 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: There will be more corruption because this will open the door for companies and groups to challenge findings with more vigor, whether they are right or not, and hold up laws/policies/regulations/what have you. What will end up happening with that is special interest groups that have their scientists that they put tons of money towards to do a similar study. Their study won't be exactly the same, but there will be enough similarities involved for the general public to be fooled by it. In doing so, they go "look, they were wrong!" In reality, both sets of data are correct, but they do not represent the same methods and sources. Or, they take a data set being used and change their method in the interpretation so that, again, it looks similar but is representing something different.

This is what is happening all of the time with these sorts of things when politics gets involved in science. Both sides are guilty of it and the politicians love to use this sort of thing because they can hire people to prove their point when the point isn't actually a good one but the general public is not knowledgeable enough to know the difference.

Sounds a lot like what goes on around here.

And i can see that argument. Maybe i just give society too much leeway to see simple concepts/problems and correct them when needed.