Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Modern science in a grant driven world

Are sperm counts really dropping worldwide?

The shock conclusion of a study 20 years ago indicated that sperm counts had halved. But a closer look at the evidence then and now paints a much more complex story.

Scientists get grants by pandering to fear. Like the newspaper motto "if it bleeds it leads", modern science is obsessed by finding disaster. Human nature is wary of threats to mankind and so the chicken little scientists well aware of this feed into fear for fun and profit.

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