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sounds like Dr Scott .... everything that she disagrees with is because her 'peers' have not had their say or reviwed the facts ...

and to get 'peer' research, you have to pay big bucks .... and if it 'interferes' with 'donations'.... it does not get peer revievied

but lets hope that this is all hype and untrue .... but my gutfeel says that if man tries to play God, eventually something will go drastically wrong

 

here are 10 pages of google search on the subject .... it's 'breaking news', so suppose that 'peer' reviews will be done in 6 months time, and suppose it won't get much press coverage

http://www.google.co.uk/search?sour....,cf.osb&fp=6cd874f8f9761270&biw=1024&bih=540

:WINK1:

 

Respected scientific publications don't publish UNTIL the peer review is done - that avoids sensationalism and jumping to (possibly wrong) conclusions.

Andrew Wakefield published his findings that the MMR vaccine increased the risk of Autism. He was a well respected scientist, but he spoke to the press about his findings before his research had gone through scientific scrutiny; overnight Mothers stopped having their children vaccinated, and the incidence of Mumps rose (you need some very high vaccination rate in the community to prevent it being able to spread, so even if you are vaccinated if most other people are not then you too are at risk). Babies died of Mumps etc in the aftermath.

It tooks years, huge research projects, and the time delay to get those results published which show that there is no such risk. Andrew Wakefield has, I believe, since been struct-off (or found guilty of misconduct or somesuch).

Its a pity, I think he was a great scientist and had good intentions ... but ... standing on a soapbox touting your opinions is not the best way to do science.

These people may well be right (I repeat that my view is that "Once the genie is out of the bottle ...") but they do themselves a disservice by trying to drum up interest on Rant sites.

I agree, it may be hard to get funding for contrary views - look at how the Tobacco industry suppressed science that did not toe the company-line - when that happens you need to try to get your MP to do something (e.g. get some government funded counter-research), or rely on some investigative journalism.