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AS SCIENCE EVOLVES, SO DOES PLUTO

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« on: March 16, 2009, 02:31:12 pm »









Pluto politics



The whole debacle has painted a new picture of how planetary scientists operate.

"I think this has been one of the more disappointing episodes for science with regard to the IAU," Stern said. "Now school kids see science as voting, and that's not the best way to do science."

"I like to call it the Irrelevant Astronomical Union," Stern added. He summed up the messiness of the scientific process as being "like cats herding themselves."

Basri agreed that "whenever you get a [scientific] issue decided by a vote, I think you can infer that people don't know what they're talking about." He observed that scientists did not vote on the existence of gravity.

All the arguments can also hide the fact that scientists continue to do research and pursue new knowledge, Seager suggested. "I'm not calling Alan [Stern] and saying, 'What do you think today, is it a planet?'" she said.
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