[WikiEN-l] NPOV and strawman attacks on science
Charles Matthews
charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
Sat Dec 11 22:20:04 UTC 2004
Nicholas Knight wrote
> There is also no reason to get piqued over his use of the term "science
> lobby". It is a generic label for advocates of mainstream science.
Is that so? Not familiar to me, so I took the trouble of looking through
the first 100 Google hits. Not much except in relation to funding; which is
what I expected - the classic work of [[F. M. Cornford]], nearly a century
ago, pointed out that scientists do lobby, for money.
So, it may be 'generic', but not that common. WP has no article about
[[science lobby]]. More to the point, Disinfopedia has none, though I found
some stuff about pro-GM lobbying.
So, seems to me this is jargon.
Charles
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