Saturday, October 19, 2013

Will no one rid us of this turbulent green priest Gore?

GREEN CRAP
We Stand By It as a Theatrical Work

How Science Is Going Wrong: ‘In the 1950s, when modern academic research took shape after its successes in the second world war, it was still a rarefied pastime. The entire club of scientists numbered a few hundred thousand. As their ranks have swelled, to 6m-7m active researchers on the latest reckoning, scientists have lost their taste for self-policing and quality control. The obligation to ‘publish or perish’ has come to rule over academic life. Competition for jobs is cut-throat’







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