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		nollidge on Nov 4, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The real reason (climate) scientists don't want to... How is that necessarily a charitable supposition? If a scientist believes in his or her research, it would be positively inhuman of them NOT to advocate for the application of it.

Mod_daniel on Nov 4, 2010 [–]

This. Especially in a field where, if the questions are to be taken at face value then the results can be incredibly socially important.

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