The method is sound. The application of it usually is.* Yet
   sometimes other very human forces take over.* Hopefully over
   time truth gets sifted out through it but it's always good to
   keep both eyes open. Look at religions.* Many of them, at their
   core, are very good and useful systems, when they stick to their
   ideals.* Being a Christian at its core is being a good person in
   theory. But then there's the application. The practice of
   science, also made up of humans, suffers from the same issues.
   Global warming is a strange case; it was a purely scientific
   issue until 1988, with the formation of the IPCC.* Then
   everything past that point had a different character, a
   different push.* Pure science on the issue was no longer really
   possible, as there was a carrot on a stick now. This doesn't
   mean there wasn't and isn't good science being done within.* I
   believe there is.* Yet, still, when they get mixed together, it
   always leaves me with an awkward feeling.