b) Science papers aren't opinion articles. Nowhere in the study did he say that the virus and the fungus are exclusively the cause of the epidemic. If you got that impression, that was the media editorializing the study. If he falsified or omitted data, then he's guilty. But all he did was show that these two pathogens are present in collapsed colonies. You can't criticize the guy for something that another writer invented.
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Even if he didn't use the funding for the study, he should have at least disclosed it. His research is going to now be perceived (right or wrong) as a lot shadier now that this CNN article came out than it would have if he just made his disclosure in the first place.
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Well, I don't know if I agree with you there. There's a fine line between opinion and theory in scientific papers, especially when you're trying to prove (or disprove) causation. You don't find it interesting that, say, the tobacco industry manages to find scientists to refute links between use of their products and cancer? Or what about the division between the "global warming" debate. There's a reason for peer review in scientific publications, and even the peer review process can occasionally break down.
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Oh, whatever.
a) He didn't use the funding for this study.
b) Science papers aren't opinion articles. Nowhere in the study did he say that the virus and the fungus are exclusively the cause of the epidemic. If you got that impression, that was the media editorializing the study. If he falsified or omitted data, then he's guilty. But all he did was show that these two pathogens are present in collapsed colonies. You can't criticize the guy for something that another writer invented.
A Even if he didn't use the funding for the study, he should have at least disclosed it. His research is going to now be perceived (right or wrong) as a lot shadier now that this CNN article came out than it would have if he just made his disclosure in the first place.
B Well, I don't know if I agree with you there. There's a fine line between opinion and theory in scientific papers, especially when you're trying to prove (or disprove) causation. You don't find it interesting that, say, the tobacco industry manages to find scientists to refute links between use of their products and cancer? Or what about the division between the "global warming" debate. There's a reason for peer review in scientific publications, and even the peer review process can occasionally break down.