Trusting Scientists

I find the recent bleating of scientists about how no-one trusts them any more, quite feeble. The poor luvs, they just do their best and people think they are lying, that they are not very good at their jobs. Bless. It is true that for quite some time, during an era of rapid technological achievement, we have come to view scientists as benign and wholly committed to their studies, to producing things that amaze us and move human civilisation forwards. Lovely people in fact. People who are only motivated by science.

Then we get Global Warming or Climate Change as they now prefer (can be used in any situation then). There is science in there but most of what affects us is driven by politics. Scientists have chosen a path and will not be diverted, so they lie about their 'science' and act hurt when someone challenges it. Is AGW a lie? Well, if a 'scientist' tells you that it is a 'settled matter' and must not be investigated further, you do not need to be a genius to know you are being sold a pup. Since when did science ever declare a subject as perfectly known and beyond further research? It is against the essence of science, yet it is the very position of the Royal Society.

And we should also remember what scientists did during WW2 in Germany, totally of their own free will. Scientists are not wholly wonderful people of unimpeachable character. And certainly when science and ideology are combined the child will be a monster.