Manipulating science for political gain
It's truly getting difficult to keep all the White House scandals in mind. It's a bit like trying to juggle ten balls and keep them all in the air simultaneously. Today, we learn something about the extent to which the Bushies went to replace science with ideology:
As always, you can be sure this is only the tip of the iceberg, but, as you can see, if the tip is this big, just imagine how large the whole thing is.
WASHINGTON, March 19 — A House committee released documents Monday that showed hundreds of instances in which a White House official who was previously an oil industry lobbyist edited government climate reports to play up uncertainty of a human role in global warming or play down evidence of such a role.
As always, you can be sure this is only the tip of the iceberg, but, as you can see, if the tip is this big, just imagine how large the whole thing is.
posted by walldon | 9:36 AM
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Remember the old "one percent doctrine": as Dick Cheney is quoted as saying,
If there's a 1% chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al-Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response. It's not about our analysis ... It's about our response. (Wikipedia)
"Response"? Hah! Heck, I bet even Rush thinks there's a one percent chance that scientists are right about global warming.
Enjoy those iceberg tips while there's ice. . . .
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