Unwarranted Defense of Corruption of Science


Some of the emails are reported to be from two months before they were made public. As for the Big Lie technique some professions created billion dollar industries using public relations promotions in major media over many years. Psychiatry is one of them.

Lyons omits evidence that some scientific studies are signed by academic specialists who have no contact with the research beyond being paid for their signature. It allows the study to be published in peer review journals and accepted by professionals as factual.

This happens when academics are offered substantial funds to give their approval of drug company studies. Academics will write articles for a fee as well. When scientists prostitute their name for money and do not lose their careers as Lyons suggests, where does that leave science?

One Harvard psychiatrist appeared on Public Radio for years promoting psychiatric drugs and did not reveal that he was paid substantial funds by drug companies.

http://www.jamestownsun.com/event/obituary/id/101073/group/Opinion/

Weathering the storm of stupidity
“(...) the spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.” — P.B. Medawar So what’s next? A series of essays by Sarah Palin about the Large Hadron Collider and the mysteries of dark matter?
By: Gene Lyons
The Jamestown Sun
Published December 21 2009