I don't like what I see in one of their current articles:
The Costs of Meat and Fish
The animal protein in our diets can have a high environmental cost
Janet Raloff
"Can Meat and Fish Consumption Be Sustainable?" That's the provocative title of a press release just sent to us by the Worldwatch Institute, a small but venerable think tank that focuses on natural resource issues...
The article goes on to summarize the so-called "press release", without any skepticism as to its content or attempt to get other viewpoints on the subject. Perhaps the organization that released it has an agenda? You'll never know if you just read the article.
As most people know by now, the Worldwatch Institute is hardly a "small but venerable think tank", as this author claims. In fact it is one of the most extreme environmentalist lobbies in existence, and has a huge agenda. Their scaremongering campaigns, many of which have long since rung hollow over the years, are infamous and well-documented. Yet somehow journalists like this one continue to give them a mouthpiece, without attempting any fact-checking or even gathering opposing viewpoints.
If there is one thing that science cannot have, it is a political agenda. You must have complete disclosure, and utter integrity in your findings. Otherwise you just end up with what Feynman called
Cargo Cult Science.
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