sguy78 said: How can you be so sure that each and every one of those articles are not fabricated in one way or another? It's in scientist's best interest to proclaim, "The sky is falling, the sky is falling" in order to acquire more funding. It is not fact until it has been proven. Again, it is not fact until it is proven. Science. |
Yea thats right, Governments are actually interested in funding research thats going to cost them millions in the long run.Thats not forgetting the application of profit, and financial bias, to ANY OTHER ORGANISATION involded with this issue.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2009/full_list/
-- Not too many Scientific Organisations or Universities in this list.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.