Scientist Honesty

[aeritano]

I have always hear from YT creatards, that scientists never admit when they are wrong and are very unethical when publishing work.

well.. here was an example of how ethical scientists can be, and willing to admit that their data is flawed.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/21/us-science-retraction-idUSTRE76K5IN20110721

this was one of the greatest papers on the identification of aging genes. A great paper that was a victim of defective equipment. The authors willing retracted the paper when they repeated the experiments with non defective equipment and didnt get the same results.

Scientists are always willing to retract data and papers if there is an issue. Science its not about finding truth, its about factual understanding... and letting something that is factually incorrect get published is not acceptable in the scientific world

 

[Case]

What? Of course science is about finding out the truth (as nothing else is worth finding). What are you talking about?

 

[RedYellow]

What? Of course science is about finding out the truth (as nothing else is worth finding). What are you talking about?

He's talking about how creationists see science. To them, the pursuit of truth apparently means already knowing the truth about everything.

One of the few times I spoke with VenomfangX was during the whole 'Ida scandal' that creos were touting as an example of a failure of evolutionary science to uphold false information about human evolution. I asked him, if Ida was really a lie, then why was it exposed by the scientific community that continued to accept evolution? He just made some evasive comment about how every claim made by evolutionary scientists was false and ran off.

 

[Deleted member 619]

That's because the erroneously view science as a branch of apologetics, merely constructed to disprove god. :roll:

 

[CosmicJoghurt]

That's because the erroneously view science as a branch of apologetics, merely constructed to disprove god. :roll:

But... but... look at Dawkins! That evil bastard is on a goal against God! Damn him and his evil teachings of SATAN!