'Scotty Matulich, Scientist for Hire'

摘要

Remember the gunslingers of the Old West? Dusty saddle-bums with nothing but a rusty six-shooter who would kill anyone you wanted dead — for a price. Well, today's gunslingers are nerdy academics with nothing but a dusty diploma, and Dr. Scotty Matulich just rode back into town. "Have gun, will travel" was the motto of the amoral killer of the frontier. "Have shaky presupposed assumption, will support with questionable data" is the motto of the scientist for hire. Whether it's proving that global warming doesn't exist or that weapons of mass destruction do, or that a profitable drug doesn't kill people and neither did O.J., the pattern is the same.