re science and methodology was homeopathy tradition in article c jodh ig news hawaii edu lady uhunix uhcc hawaii edu lee lady writes furthermore the big bucks approach to science promotes what i think is one of the most significant errors in science choosing to investigate questions because they can be readily handled by the currently fashionable methodology or because one can readily get institutional or corporate sponsorship for them instead of directing attention to those questions which seem to have fundamental significance shades of james watson that s exactly the way many workers have described their misgivings about the human genome project if you take a rigid definition of scientific research the mere accumulation of data is not doing science one of the early arguments against the project were that the resources would be better used to focus on specific genetics related problems rather than just going off and collecting maps and sequence the project can t be so narrowly defined or easily described now though
