一般的研究人员拿了点funding折腾不出什么结果来往往还觉得糟蹋钱了心里不好意思,折腾大了不过就是像德哥那样骗上几千万,或者更近一步还像肖师傅那样拿穷困的病人当小白鼠。可这影响都很有限。而这帮“气候学家”拿着有限的funding干的可是要影响几亿人的钱包还有若干国家经济的大事。
How damaging is “Climategate” to NASA?
Henry Kissinger supposedly once said, “The reason why academic quarrels are so nasty is that the stakes are so small.” The so-called “Climategate” scandal may be an exception, or it may be a harbinger of future conflicts involving science and politics. In this case the stakes could hardly be bigger: a gigantic environmental catastrophe, or not, trillions of dollars, and a huge shift in global political power.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1522/1