OB1Shinobi wrote: these are the sorts of things i think of when i think "agendas in science"
"agendas" in a bad way that is - curing cancer is an agenda im ok with
http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/11593-monsantos-history-of-lies-and-toxicity
http://www.eatdrinkpolitics.com/2012/09/12/meet-the-scientific-experts-claiming-gmo-foods-are-safe/
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/feb/21/climate-change-denier-willie-soon-funded-energy-industry
on this last one, notice who is saying what
http://www.thebestgrains.com/wheat-is-not-unhealthy-a-rebuttal-to-recent-claims
im not making a confident declaration that this last link represents intentional deception - only that it fits the profile
"Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publications"
article here: http://www.pnas.org/content/109/42/17028.abstract
i found the above while reading this article "are scientists lying more than ever?"
http://www.itworld.com/article/2718456/enterprise-software/are-scientists-lying-more-than-ever-.html
Well here's your problem the monsanto corpation is a corpation and not part of the scientific community in any way shape or form. I'm having trouble understanding why anyone would think a corporation is science.
Now the stuff about papers being retracted. Individuals have an agenda to produce results to make their universities or bosses happy. Scientists are human and some may try to cheat the system ,but then their papers get peer reviewed to make sure there are not any agendas and that the information they are submitting is reproducible. Publishing a paper doesn't mean the scientific community accepts it. It only becomes accepted after other scientists can reproduce the paper and can't find any other reasons for the findings.
So let's be clear you should not trust a published paper just because it was published in a scientific journal, until after other scientists have reproduced the information and it then becomes accepted information. After that you should understand that information is the best information we have.
