La credibilidad de la ciencia y el escándalo

El Wall Street journal publicó ayer un artículo lapidario sobre el escándalo de los datos alterados en la universidad de East Anglia. Y tal como había especulado en un post, señala que alcanza mucho màs que la fe del cambio climático, para esmerilar la credibilidad de la ciencia:

"Surely there must have been serious men and women in the hard sciences who at some point worried that their colleagues in the global warming movement were putting at risk the credibility of everyone in science. The nature of that risk has been twofold: First, that the claims of the climate scientists might buckle beneath the weight of their breathtaking complexity. Second, that the crudeness of modern politics, once in motion, would trample the traditions and culture of science to achieve its own policy goals. With the scandal at the East Anglia Climate Research Unit, both have happened at once." (completo, aquí)

Recibido por mail, del amigo Bartolomé Alberdi, desde el exilio boreal.