The continued politicalization of science

....is nowhere more evident than in the ongoing "global warming" scam.

"One of the reasons research is being stifled in the U.S. is the pressure from the left for conformity to their agenda. How many scientists have been threatened with the loss of their grants because their work questioned the left's Global Warming mantra? The decline in science is directly related to its politicalization."

-- James Barends

David Demming discussed this point several years ago, about a short paper he had written back in the 90s:


"The week the article appeared, I came into my office one morning to find a voicemail message from a reporter for National Public Radio. He wanted to interview me concerning my article in Science. Visions of glory danced in front of my eyes. I was going to be on national radio. Surely, it was only a matter of time before I would be a regular guest on the McNeil-Lehrer news hour on PBS. Excited, I called the reporter back.

But all of my fantasies were immediately dispelled. The reporter focused in on the last sentence in the Science paper. He asked me, did I really mean to say that? Did I really intend to imply that the warming in North America may have been due to natural variability?

Without hesitation, I said 'yes'. He replied, 'Well then, I guess we have no story. That’s not what people are interested in. People are only interested if the warming is due to human activities. Goodbye.' And he hung up on me.

It was my first realization that the media intentionally filter the information the public receives."


More:


"My first heresy says that all the fuss about global warming is grossly exaggerated.

Here I am opposing the holy brotherhood of climate model experts and the crowd of deluded citizens who believe the numbers predicted by the computer models. Of course, they say, I have no degree in meteorology and I am therefore not qualified to speak. But I have studied the climate models and I know what they can do.

The models solve the equations of fluid dynamics, and they do a very good job of describing the fluid motions of the atmosphere and the oceans. They do a very poor job of describing the clouds, the dust, the chemistry and the biology of fields and farms and forests. They do not begin to describe the real world that we live in.

The real world is muddy and messy and full of things that we do not yet understand. It is much easier for a scientist to sit in an air-conditioned building and run computer models, than to put on winter clothes and measure what is really happening outside in the swamps and the clouds. That is why the climate model experts end up believing their own models."

-- Freeman Dyson


The examples of academic and intellectual dishonesty from the True Believers and their enablers/handlers continue unabated. This serves several political/social/economic agenda items closely associated with (yes, you guessed it) Dems/Lefties/"Progressives" of many different stripes.