Pul Nurse, photo by Jason Brooks
Sir Paul Nurse, t Nobelist and president of the Royal Society, Britain’s national academy of sciences, urged scientists to speak out against the media hype. … “This is far too important to be left to the polemicists and the commentators in the media. Scientists have to be there too. We’ve got an unholy mix of the media and the politics and it’s distorting the proper reporting of science and that’s a real danger to us if science is to have its proper impact on society.”
The Independent use the false Climate scandal as an example.
Climate science in particular seems to have polarised public opinion, especially in the aftermath of the leak of emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, which one media commentator said had exposed the “greatest scientific scandal in the history of the world”. Yet four independent inquiries have cleared the scientists involved of scientific fraud or misconduct and have explained that the most damning quotation from the emails, which talked about a “trick” to “hide the decline”, referred to nothing more than a fairly standard scientific technique of splicing two sets of data.
“This seems to be the greatest scientific scandal that just didn’t take place,” Sir Paul said.
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