Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scientician
An intelligently written article about politically corrupted/convenient scientists; I don't take issue with what it says. The main trouble is that this is a neologism -- as the author admits. For a neologism, it seems at first to do fairly well at Google, with over five hundred hits. However, it's clear that many of these hits are for a nonce-word welding "scientist" and "mathematician" or other whimsical applications. A search for "scientician" plus "ethical" gets a mere 41 hits.
The term does seem to be useful, for, say, that rare kind of biologist whose opinions are conveniently compatible with those of the Bush administration and its plutocrat paymasters. But the term barely exists. So hang on until "scientician" with this meaning gets at least five thousand hits; if/when that happens, reconsider.
(Incidentally, scientists who are convenient for or corrupted by governments seem to me to be no different to those who are convenient for or corrupted by tobacco interests, etc., even when those interests lack government support. But I digress.) -- Hoary 08:12, 2005 Jun 19 (UTC) [Wording slightly tweaked 08:28, 2005 Jun 19 (UTC)]
- I'd googled too, but hadn't looked further than the fact that the word was reasonably common. Good job on the further checking, delete. --W(t) 08:15, 2005 Jun 19 (UTC)
- I've first heard this word in a Simpsons episode. Can it be verified to have originated there? If so then merge to List of made-up words in The Simpsons. Radiant_>|< 10:12, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)