[Esip-preserve] FYI: Article - "How science goes wrong"

[Curt Tilmes]

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21588069-scientific-research-has-changed-world-now-it-needs-change-itself-how-science-goes-wrong

"A SIMPLE idea underpins science: “trust, but verify”. Results should 
always be subject to challenge from experiment. That simple but powerful 
idea has generated a vast body of knowledge. Since its birth in the 17th 
century, modern science has changed the world beyond recognition, and 
overwhelmingly for the better.

But success can breed complacency. Modern scientists are doing too much 
trusting and not enough verifying—to the detriment of the whole of 
science, and of humanity."

-- 
Curt Tilmes, Ph.D.
U.S. Global Change Research Program
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