I'll presume you're joking. A
scientist has no preconceptions when approaching a problem. You formulate a hypothesis and test it. If it doesn't pan out, you scrap or modify it and repeat the process.
You see politicians
warping science--such as the Bush Administration basically censoring reports on global warming (
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9401E5DE1F38F933A15755C0A9659C8B63) or VideoJinx's ridiculous anti-fluoride sources twisting
pro-fluoride research to claim the opposite.
Science is the search for truth--whatever it may be. Sticking your head in the mud and insisting that something false is true does not lead to progress, which is the point of the scientific pursuit in the first place.
Religion is wholly uninterested in the truth, in facts. Which is why it makes
no progress. Politicians are as well.
Don't get me wrong. The oil industry basically killed early research in the electric car. And the health industry wants to keep you paying out the ying-yang. They're for-profit businesses.
But
scientists as a whole are interested in the pursuit of truth--and especially in a day and age where people can easily and quickly transmit ideas to billions of people through the Internet--no amount of political power and pressure can silence a major breakthrough like a cure for a major disease or superior energy source.
You don't hear about people wildly advocating a "slightly more efficient" or "significantly more efficient" energy source claiming people are trying to kill them or the government is trying to censor them. The entire energy industry
jumps on the chance to invest. (Solar? Ethanol? Fuel cells? HELLO?)
It's the crackpot, paranoid nutballs like every source Jinx uses, that claim something insane or unbelievable, who claim the government or industry is trying to silence or kill them. Boring. Bull****.
