I recently read an article by the a spokeswoman from New Scientist claiming that there is a wall of silence between the writing scientists and the advertising department.
In the same edition, there was an article about how rapidly medicine was evolving due to the synthesis of naturally occuring compounds.
There were "Biopharma" company adverts on every other page.
Why do we live under tha delusion that scientists are any less capable of corruption than any other group of people.
(Back on topic). There don't seem to be many here who do not beleive that research into global warming is biased in some way.
We keep discussing red herrings, such as the thickness of the ice on greenland. If the discussion gets too hot, we still turn up the air-conditioning.
The only thing most British scientists fear more than the reversal of the gulf-stream, is not having been the one to predict precisely when it was going to happen.