POLICY PERSPECTIVES: Government and science brew unholy mix again

摘要

You will hear lots of commentary that factually, the Dietary Goals Advisory Committee left out, subverted or simply ignored facts and scientific results that buttress the importance of red meat and dairy products in the human diet. It's true. And we'll touch on what and why.But we must keep in mind the big picture here, the pattern of relationship between citizens and big government. Politics have been allowed to pervert science and shape our lives based on flawed, unproven hypotheses labeled science fact when it is but scientific testing, scientific process.A major guest editorial in a recent Wall Street Journal was a recounting by an MIT professor of all the factual omissions, the model failings and the faulty predictions regarding "global warming." Yet while the "case for climate alarm is disintegrating,"billions of dollars have been sunk into studies and "trillions of dollars have been involved in overthrowing the energy economy," Richard S. Lindzen said. Lindzen recounted the recent efforts of the New York Times and a Congressman attacking the credibility of seven scientists who have challenged the global warming theory. And they didn't attack facts but expense reports and study funding and sent intimidation letters to university employers. While this is just one political example, government's takeover of the global warming movement while still a theory, and forcing it upon businesses and taxpayers, is similar to our problems.