You might recall our recent post, where our colleague Luther opined on how even the sciences, once a bastion of objectivity, have been succumbing to political correctness, which has now begun to infect the journals.
Power Line must be reading us, because they picked up on just this thread today in a post entitled "A Bad Mix," describing the increasingly manipulative statistics behind today's socalled "global warming."
Both Luther and Hinderaker are describing something most accurately called "Advocacy science." Remember that term the next time the (socalled) "Center for Science in the Public Interest" tells you you're going to die the next time you consume a bag of movie theater popcorn.
Luther is on to something, and a powerful blogger is seconding the motion. It's bad enough that the left has destroyed literature and literacy, set American jurisprudence back 2 generations, and infiltrated the Federal government with income redistributionists. Now they want to ruin the greatest glory of the West, the scientific method, by politicizing it into disfunctionality.
Problem with this is that the public can soon enough see the results, or lack thereof, of bogus science, and will soon begin to ignore its results. Which creates a further problem: What "science" will they believe? We don't really want to go there. But the hard left does. A disaster in the making.
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