A friend asks us to notice again science writer Matt Ridley’s complaint about the Climate Wars’ Damage to Science, quoting:
The great thing about science is that it’s self-correcting. The good drives out the bad, because experiments get replicated and hypotheses tested — or so I used to think. Now, thanks largely to climate science, I see bad ideas can persist for decades, and surrounded by myrmidons of furious defenders they become intolerant dogmas.
Previous notice here.
To some of us, the biggest problem was the wholesale manipulation of data, as in Climategate and data fudging.
We were used to this with Darwinism, etc., but then some people began doing it with stuff your nephew or your granny should care about.
Hat tip: Pos-Darwinista