Well, of course they're more reliable than the Pope! :-) I was just making an analogy.

But do you really imagine that scientists, simply by virtue of the fact that they are scientists, are completely without prejudice? Completely fair-minded? Completely free of peer pressure? Completely disinterested in the findings they present? Completely free of the competitive desire to be "right", and to prove people with different theories wrong?

Ha! Tell me another one, Amos. If you do think those things, I have a bridge to sell you.

Keep in mind that the scientists who present big industry with what it wants to hear are the ones who get continued funding from big industry. And where does that lead?

And how does a man with culturally induced blind spots know he has them? He doesn't. Scientists, like the rest of us, have them.

- LH