The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there is no place for it in the endeavor of science. - Carl Sagan, 1934-1996 Scientific misconduct takes many forms, including deliberate omissions that can be located within the unethical practices of cloaking scientific knowledge in silence by stonewalling and collectively colluding to willfully deny extant, virtually irrefutable research. When it comes to acquiring the best available scientific knowledge of human population dynamics/overpopulation, it appears that many too many experts in leading professional societies and top rank scientists on high level panels inside and outside the scientific community are ceasing to function properly by ignoring and omitting findings of apparently unforeseen scientific research. They are refusing to speak out and, by so doing, failing to accept responsibilities and perform duties associated with their recognized professional expertise and public standing. Their silence is forsaking science and humanity as well as delaying the development of, and qualitatively damaging the shared body of knowledge scientists are working to build. Such suppression cannot be construed as either ethical or somehow right because it anathematizes intellectual honesty, moral courage, the evolution of science and the gathering momentum required for making necessary behavioral changes while there is still time. “Speak out as if you were a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.” - St. Catherine of Siena, 1347-1380
Posted on: Sun, 01 Jun 2014 10:41:30 +0000
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