[pp.int.general] Global heating: 2 degrees of heating is 16 years away

[Jack Allnutt]

Fair enough, and I would agree with you on a macro scale.

The example given was that "[the] nuclear-power-industry have invested
a lot in research proving that CO2 is to blame on the coming end of
the world as we know it". At this (micro) scale, it really doesn't
matter who's doing the study and who's paying for it as long as the
science is done right.

To use your example, in the set of people who were studying string
theory it wouldn't matter who was funding each of the researchers at
any one time, rather the issue is at the scale of the funding for
physics research in aggregate.

-- Jack

On 27 July 2012 18:06, Gijs Overvliet <govervliet at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm sorry.
>
> What I meant to say is that funding is very important to the direction of
> research. I learned that from reading the book "The trouble with physics" by
> Lee Smolin.
> It states that String theory basically is the only seriously researched
> field in physics, because other research was just not funded.
>
> Science is not immune to corruption, as much as we'd like it to be...
>
>
> 2012/7/27 Anton Nordenfur <anton at nordenfur.se>
>>
>> Jack is absolutely right, and Gijs, you are condescending for no valid
>> reason.
>>
>> On 27 Jul 2012 16:52, "Gijs Overvliet" <govervliet at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> "It does not matter who does or funds research as long as it's done
>> correctly, and peer-reviewed."
>>
>> Damn, you're going to be disappointed when you wake up in the real
>> world...
>>
>>
>>
>> 2012/7/27 Jack Allnutt <j.allnutt at pirateparty.org.uk>
>> >
>> > On 27 July 2012 09:21, Gregory Engels
>> > ...
>>
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