Lamar Smith decides peer review not important

[Stumpy 284]

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2013/04/us-lawmaker-proposes-new-criteri-1.html?ref=hp

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/29/lamar-smith-science_n_3165754.html

Politicising science? Awesome - that will work out well.

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[billvon 3,120]

It is very important to have governmental approval of scientific conclusions. Otherwise you could have scientists make discoveries that are damaging to, say, the US oil companies - and that would result in a steep decline in the big business political donations that make our system of government possible.

[rushmc 23]

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It is very important to have governmental approval of scientific conclusions. Otherwise you could have scientists make discoveries that are damaging to, say, the US oil companies - and that would result in a steep decline in the big business political donations that make our system of government possible.

You got an angle for every any report or paper you see as a set back
Gotta give you that

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if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
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[mistercwood 287]

Read the thread title wrong, had me thinking people wanted to remove peer review completely. What a relief when I realised it was just people who know sfa about science wanting to be in charge of deciding what good science is...

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