Mad Scientists

Count this amongst the many reasons why I tend not to believe the environmental lobby...

Few scientists fabricate results or flatly plagiarize the work of others, but a surprising number engage in troubling degrees of fact-bending or deceit, according to a survey of scientific misbehavior.

More than 5 percent of scientists answering a confidential questionnaire admitted to having tossed out data because it contradicted their previous research or said they had circumvented some human-research protections.

Ten percent admitted they had inappropriately included their names or those of others as authors on published research reports. And more than 15 percent admitted they had changed a study's design or results to satisfy a sponsor or ignored observations because they had a "gut feeling" they were inaccurate.

These people aren't to be trusted...they're almost as bad as politicans...