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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

People will always optimize their methods to maximize resource gain. It's a fact of life since the dawn of life. Even animals do this.

I've seen cancer researchers lie to people with dead loved ones to get funding. I've seen physicists do bogus experiments that yield nothing with a nice dark matter story just to get funding... it's become marketing at this stage.

This is my problem with climate change research. Those who attempt to oppose the "narrative" never get funding. How are we supposed to claim science is unbiased when bias is what's making the results come out?