Friday, August 05, 2005
Parallel Intellectual Universe
Paul Krugman has an Op-Ed, "Design for Confusion," in today's New York Times that should be required reading for every supporter of science and science education in the country. "Corporations... " writes Krugman, "pouring a steady stream of money into think tanks that created a sort of parallel intellectual universe, a world of "scholars" whose careers are based on toeing an ideological line, rather than on doing research that stands up to scrutiny by their peers."
