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"Richardson-Obama in 08" wrote in message
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> "MioMyo" wrote in message
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>> Now you tell me, who's left to conduct top notch scientific studies where
>> there's no possibility for an agenda driven conclusion?
>
>
> You don't seem to quite get it. There is no such thing as "no possibility
> for an agenda driven conclusion", but there IS such a thing as
> probability.
> If someone is being paid specifically to prove a particular point, such as
> an oil company paying a geologist to prove that sucking oil out of the
> earth's crust has no impact on the environment, then there is a high
> probability that his research will lead him to exactly that conclusion,
> and
> a very low probability that he will ever release findings that point to
> the
> opposite conclusion. However, if a geologist receives a grant to research
> what the impact on the environment would be if such drilling were to be
> performed, with no specifications as to what his findings will be other to
> find the truth, then there is a high probability that his findings will be
> as accurate as he can make them.

So you don't see the same is true in how a government funded research could
fall prey greed, that is the greed to continue boondoggle research. After
all if they were to report problem now solved, there isn't the dooms-day
crisis, there isn't the need for this little dynasty.... right!

> It's easy to prove that oil companies have a vested interest in a specific
> outcome to the research they hire people to do. Although it's possible
> that
> independent scientists, institutions of higher learning and government
> agencies may wish to prove a specific point, it's difficult to prove that

It's not independent when the program (like all government programs) will
end up addicted to that limitless government tit to suck.

> they have any vested interest in a specific outcome, other than finding
> the
> truth, thus there is a much higher probability that their research will be
> more objective than that of those who have specific mandated findings that
> they are being paid to achieve.

Any research program, either publically or privately funded, tends toward an
inherit need to survive and grow. I actually believe the probability is
higher for government sponsored research abuse - after all their track
record proves this so!