Actually, it's more akin to a dentist saying that amalgam fillings don't have any health effects, or doctors claiming that mercury in vaccines has nothing to do with autism.

You see Linear, it's actually a matter of understanding how the world really works, and having the courage to recognize the corruption that abounds in all fields.

People pay large amounts of money to go to school to be a doctor, dentist, geologist, etc., and they expect that they are being taught correctly.

Unfortunately, just as corporations have gained control of the world media (See http://www.thenation.com/special/bigten.html ), they have also gained control of the educational system. It's well known that pharmaceutical companies control medical education; And so it is with other fields.

So, sometimes (more often than you'd like to believe), people in those fields lie or even more often, ignore the corruption going on around. Why? Because they want to keep their jobs.

NutraSweet is on the market today because of a series of orchestrated lies. One scientist was paid $30,000 to lie on reports made during a phenylalanine study.

In other cases, people don't really know what they are doing. In the case of dentists and amalgam, they were taught that amalgam was safe in school, so they believe it. Unfortunately, there was corruption at a higher level that fabricated the lie (ADA holds amalgam patents).

So, you see, in some cases, it is corruption. In other cases, it is incompetence. In many cases, it's some combination of both that cause corruption in scientific fields.

Remember, evolution is one of the most profitable religions in the history of the world.