Bad science: Global warming
Global warming always had many signs of bad science (politicization, demonization of skeptics, and lack of verifiable predictions), but had many liberal scientists believing in it. Hopefully fraud is where even these liberal scientists stop:
One of the most damning e-mails published comes from Dr. Jones himself. In an e-mail from almost exactly ten years ago, Jones appears to discuss a method of overlaying data of temperature declines with repetitive, false data of higher temperatures:
Now that the fraud on the part of some of its advocates is known, will scientists (climatologist or not) finally start acting like scientists, looking at claims with skeptical, analytical view and being wary of inconsistent data—even while, as we always do, trusting it as a rule of thumb (experiments are expensive and difficult to repeat, and for a scientist to alter his raw data is like a clergy altering words of the Bible)?
Or will they brush this aside, saying, “So, what if some of us committed fraud? It was for the public’s own good. They need to be scared into doing the right thing!”
Well, the public will be scared into doing the right thing—they will cut off science funding, and backlash doesn’t need to be limited to global warming research—and it will be for their own good—and the scientists, if only as a lesson for posterity.
Seldom is it good science ever comes out of politics. When someone tries politicizing their research (Al Gore and his acolytes), be very wary. Politics has a way of freezing everyone into their (often prejudiced) position, and there is no room for that in science.