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The function of scientific research is promoting the understanding
of the world around us. In theory, anyway, the more we learn, the
more potential we have of making our lives better. Thus, we have
seen research in electronics provide us with computers, research in
chemistry provide us with all manner of synthetics, and research in
agriculture provide us with more food. Periodically, scientific
research uncovers something that makes some of us uncomfortable.
The discovery of the link between smoking and lung cancer and heart
disease was not received well by the tobacco industry, and the link
between global climate change and fossil fuel use has not been well
received by the petroleum industry, to cite just two examples.
Usually the response of those whose world has been disrupted by
science is denial, often followed by attack on or ridicule of the
science that has challenged them. In the long term, however,
science usually turns out to be correct.
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