Not Quite the Salmon of Doubt

When there's an industry built up around doubting solid scientific results, the blogger at Adaptive Complexity wonders how people, even scientists looking outside their scope of expertise, can know the difference between a real and settled scientific debate, particularly when it is a complicated subject. "But there is hope: good scientists who speak to the public should be frank about the shortcomings and possible alternate interpretations of their work, but when they are confident about a result, they should say so forcefully and explain why alternate ideas have failed on the evidence," says the post.