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KT2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 04:38 AM
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75. There are limits to science
and more and more people are witnessing this.
The proof that satisfies science is a wonderful thing! But what is not making it into the sphere of scientific examination?
Many problems that if closely examined will adversely affect powerful corporations.

Peer-review is also used as a form of censoring. Journals often reject for peer-review and publication articles that would adversely affect their benefactors. Corporations do contribute to medical, scientific organizations, societies, individuals and by extension, journals.
If you want to see a shameful example of that, please look into the speacialy of occupational/environmental medicine.

Journals are well aware that what is published could become proof in court cases.

How valuable is science if it is so very selective in what it examines? Who is it serving?

How much scientific effort is spent on subjects that won't make someone a lot of money?

People in the scientific world do not seem to understand that their pristine methods are heavily influenced by powerful entities.
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