Posted by
Always To The Right on Friday, July 03, 2009 1:49:49 PM
Barack Obama promised to return science to its “rightful place” in
government, but at least on climate change, it seems that Obama has the
Inquisition in mind as the government model. When a dissenting voice
at the EPA warned that the global-warming theories on which Obama had
predicated his policies were falling apart, the administration did not
champion a scientific approach to the debate. Instead, it took the
ages-old method of silencing the scientist, as Kimberly Strassel reports
Carlin’s comments didn’t “help the legal or policy case” for the Obama administration? Actually, Carlin’s scientific analysis
undermined the entire reason for those legal and policy choices. The
effort to silence Carlin didn’t come because the EPA and the White
House could easily refute the analysis. They silenced Carlin because
they couldn’t refute it.
Now that Carlin has blown the whistle, the Obama administration has
embarked on another ages-old strategy: character assassination. They
have dismissed Carlin as an economist, when he actually has a degree in
physics — from CalTech. They have derided his work as “sham science,”
even though it relied on peer-reviewed studies. They’ve done
everything but actually use the scientific method to rebut
Carlin, which demonstrates the commitment they have to the “rightful
place” of science when it comes to policy in this administration.