As a scientist, I am inclined to agree. But I also think there is an inherent drive to cover one’s ass. Bad science that drives the cheating. We become too attached to the hypothesis that is being tested. Something that doesn’t fit disappears. The action that needs to be taken is discovery. Why did this happen? Thus no further action in Pfizer’s part. He simply disappeared.
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As a scientist, I am inclined to agree. But I also think there is an inherent drive to cover one’s ass. Bad science that drives the cheating. We become too attached to the hypothesis that is being tested. Something that doesn’t fit disappears. The action that needs to be taken is discovery. Why did this happen? Thus no further action in Pfizer’s part. He simply disappeared.
I think the contaminant is the quest for big research dollars. My best work was either bootleg or very minimally funded. I had a project that first demonstrated far IR imaging using quantum well detector arrays. Success for $15 k (back in 1991). That technology got pushed further by JPL, and ended up being used in mammography. Contrast that with the millions wasted on string theory, a sterile blind alley and a bandwagon that in fifty years hasn't produced one single verifiable prediction.
Funding bandwagons make honesty frightening to the funded, because the plug could get pulled all too quickly..
I keep thinking about the pressure all these people faced. The world was mired in a pandemic. There was a global hysteria most people had never seen before. They didn't know what to do.
But something absolutely needed to be done. We were all desperate and whipped up into a frenzy of Covid fear. And for some rea$on vaccines just simply HAD to be the answer. So everyone working on this thing desperately wanted it to succeed.
So, now, imagine working on these trials -- are YOU gonna be the one who throws a wrench into the gears? I'll tell you honestly, I probably would have just turned a blind eye and rolled over and tried to get the result the bosses expected. The social pressure was immense outside the trials. Imagine what it was INSIDE.
These were not the conditions for carrying out a robust scientific study.
As a scientist, I am inclined to agree. But I also think there is an inherent drive to cover one’s ass. Bad science that drives the cheating. We become too attached to the hypothesis that is being tested. Something that doesn’t fit disappears. The action that needs to be taken is discovery. Why did this happen? Thus no further action in Pfizer’s part. He simply disappeared.
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I think the contaminant is the quest for big research dollars. My best work was either bootleg or very minimally funded. I had a project that first demonstrated far IR imaging using quantum well detector arrays. Success for $15 k (back in 1991). That technology got pushed further by JPL, and ended up being used in mammography. Contrast that with the millions wasted on string theory, a sterile blind alley and a bandwagon that in fifty years hasn't produced one single verifiable prediction.
Funding bandwagons make honesty frightening to the funded, because the plug could get pulled all too quickly..
I keep thinking about the pressure all these people faced. The world was mired in a pandemic. There was a global hysteria most people had never seen before. They didn't know what to do.
But something absolutely needed to be done. We were all desperate and whipped up into a frenzy of Covid fear. And for some rea$on vaccines just simply HAD to be the answer. So everyone working on this thing desperately wanted it to succeed.
So, now, imagine working on these trials -- are YOU gonna be the one who throws a wrench into the gears? I'll tell you honestly, I probably would have just turned a blind eye and rolled over and tried to get the result the bosses expected. The social pressure was immense outside the trials. Imagine what it was INSIDE.
These were not the conditions for carrying out a robust scientific study.