Video on the politicization of science.

http://www.evolutionnews.org/2015/05/ninety-five_per095821.html

"Ninety-five Percent of Forensic Scientists Agree..."

Michael Egnor May 5, 2015 3:12 PM
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In a stunning revelation the FBI has admitted that it provided flawed forensic testimony on hundreds of cases in the two decades prior to the year 2000. The FBI forensic experts falsely stated forensic matches that favored prosecutors 95% of the time in the over 200 cases reviewed so far.
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The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000.
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It is primarily a scandal of the scientific community. The testimony clearly reflected a consensus within the community of forensic scientists who testify for the FBI. The fundamental scandal is that the FBI took scientists at their word -- that their scientific findings were consensus science, and therefore good science.

In the courtroom, scientists favored the prosecution (their employer) 95 percent of the time. This echoes government-funded global warming scientists' claim that "97% of climate scientists agree that anthropogenic climate change is occurring."
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No doubt the forensic scientists insisted, as climate scientists and evolutionary biologists still insist, that their findings were facts, and that there is a scientific consensus to support their proclamations.
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Consensus climate science and consensus evolutionary biology are no more credible than consensus forensic science. If anything, forensic scientists' ethical standards are higher than those of climate scientists and evolutionary biologists, who don't proclaim their theories in situations in which life and freedom are immediately at stake, who are unaccountable to the justice system, and who aren't under oath when they make their proclamations about scientific unanimity.

This lesson is clear: consensus science isn't science. Consensus science is groupthink, ideology-mongering, and censorship masquerading as science. Science is a continuous process of inquiry. We should reject "consensus science" in the courtroom, in the classroom, and in the public square.

 


Congress: Obama Admin Fired Top Scientist to Advance Climate Change Plans

BY: Adam Kredo
December 20, 2016 3:00 pm

A new congressional investigation has determined that the Obama administration fired a top scientist and intimidated staff at the Department of Energy in order to further its climate change agenda, according to a new report that alleges the administration ordered top officials to obstruct Congress in order to forward this agenda.
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The report additionally discovered efforts by the Obama administration to censor the information given to Congress, interfering with the body’s ability to perform critical oversight work.


http://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/2016-12-19-Final-Staff-Report-LDRR.pdf

U.S. Department of Energy Misconduct
Related to the Low Dose Radiation Research Program
December 20, 2016

Staff Report
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
Chairman Lamar Smith

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. Background on the Committee’s Investigation

A. Overview of the Low Dose Radiation Research Program and H.R. 5544, the Low
Dose Radiation Research Act of 2014.

B. Allegations: Office of Science management and senior DOE employees deliberately
withheld information from Congress during the legislative process and removed an
agency scientist from federal service for providing complete answers to Committee
staff.


C. Committee Investigation.

III. Findings

A. DOE management developed a scheme to withhold information from congressional
staff.

B. Dr. Metting was directed to omit information from a presentation to congressional
staff given during the briefing.

C. DOE management avoided critical information pertinent to the continuance of the
LDRRP.

D. DOE management worked to kill the LDRRP because it did not further the
Administration’s goals to advance climate research.

E. With regard to H.R. 5544, DOE management sought to manipulate congressional
staff – both republican and democratic staff.

F. DOE management and senior employees gave intentionally misleading statements to
Congress.

G. Dr. Carruthers and Dr. Weatherwax both made inconsistent statements at different
points during the Committee’s investigation.

H. Management quickly took steps to remove Dr. Metting from federal service.

I. Dr. Metting was removed for providing Congress with candid testimony without
regard to the potential chilling effect on other scientists.

J. Dr. Metting was the DOE’s sole expert on LDRR and her opinion was silenced to
further political interests.
IV. Conclusions and Recommendations

A. The DOE exhibited a complete disregard for the legislative process and
Constitutional separation of powers at an institutional level.

B. The DOE must overhaul its management practices to ensure that the Department
carries out its Constitutional responsibilities to be truthful with Congress and respects
the legislative process.
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