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I saw this on Slashdot.

There's a Uranus joke in this somewhere

I think you mean "science SHOULD'NT work that way". If you look throughout history, scientists are not exactly above being petty, vindictive and short-sighted. When you couple that with the constant fight for limited resources (you can't do research for free), you get even more justification to get the Money Man to give the money to you and not that pesky scientist with the opposing theory. FWIW, I am skeptical in this issue. I do think that GW is probably represented incorrectly. The difference is that in my case it's just a feeling, nothing more, since I don't have anything concrete to base that feeling on. And I certainly agree that sometime people take one side and believe it to be gospel even without basis. That does not mean the other side is necessarily correct. Debate, in itself, is not helpful, as this is a scientific issue - either the scientists can tell us what's going on or they can't. After that, it's a political issue of deciding what to do, and that's where the debate is relevant.