Friday, September 07, 2007

science is distorted to promote political and corporate agendas

Shaun Saunders sends in a link from Newstarget.com that purports that the reporting of science today is more closely akin to political motivations than it is to the advancement of scientific knowledge.

Writer Mike Adams points out that science primarily publicized today is science that supports the interest of business, most notably in medical and environmental science.

Under the Bush Administration, government-employed scientists are routinely told they cannot report results indicating the progression of global warming.

The clinical trials used by the Food and Drug Administration to make drug approval decisions are conducted almost entirely by the drug companies themselves. These companies go out of their way to hire scientists willing to design and run these studies to produces precisely the result that the drug companies want.


And there is so much more. Click the article title or this link for the comlete article.

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