Re: "Political Correctness" drives scientific errors

From: tadchem (tadchemNOSPAM_at_comcast.net)
Date: 03/19/05 

Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:14:40 -0500

"ošin" <ošin@ragnarok.com> wrote in message
news:aJ-dnY4Y_bXMzaHfRVn-uw@whidbeytel.com...
> My favorites:
>
> 1. Piltdown Man fraud

The perp has not yet been ID'd, so motives are only speculative:
http://home.tiac.net/~cri_a/piltdown/piltdown.html
There were several involved with varying degrees of guilt. I personally feel
Doyle was simply taken in (his writings in general suggest he was rather
gullible), and others involved may have had their critical faculties clouded
by nationalism.

> 2. Tasaday hoax

$$$
http://www.adam.com.au/bstett/BDarwinismChallenges27.htm
The central figure in the scandal disappeared with $35M in funds 'earmarked'
to help the people. National Geographic seems to have been an innocent
dupe.

> 3. Cold Fusion confusion

...may have been simple incompetence by investigators who were not familiar
with the challenges of sensitive calorimetry. No evidence of deliberate
fraud seems to have been found, and the work has not been replicated.

> 4. Lysenko - acquired characteristics are inherited

...a politically motivated adherence to "pure theory" without empirical
validation:
http://www.mail-archive.com/marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu/msg01075.html
Marxists have a tendency to be absolutists in other things as well.

Tom Davidson
Richmond, VA

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