{"id":38,"date":"2011-10-14T13:13:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T13:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rulesofreason.wordpress.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2011-10-14T13:13:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T13:13:12","slug":"texas-vs-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-design.dimiter.eu\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Texas vs. Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is from the Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Officials in Rick Perry’s home state of Texas have set off a scientists’ revolt after purging mentions of climate change and sea-level rise from what was supposed to be a landmark environmental report. The scientists said they were disowning the report on the state of Galveston Bay because of political interference and censorship from Perry appointees at the state’s environmental agency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More details here<\/a>. The public<\/em> officials\u00a0changed any reference to climate change, sea level rises, human influence\u00a0and global warming form the draft report. In response, all scientists associated with the report withdrew their names from it.\u00a0I guess that last bit is\u00a0the good news. The bad news is that\u00a0politicisation of science is no news anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is from the Guardian: Officials in Rick Perry’s home state of Texas have set off a scientists’ revolt after purging mentions of climate change and sea-level rise from what was supposed to be a landmark environmental report. The scientists said they were disowning the report on the state of Galveston Bay because of political interference and censorship from Perry appointees at the state’s environmental agency. More details here. The public officials\u00a0changed any reference to climate change, sea level rises, human influence\u00a0and global warming form the draft report. In response, all scientists associated with the report withdrew their names from it.\u00a0I guess that last bit is\u00a0the good news. The bad news is that\u00a0politicisation of science is no news anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[15,41],"tags":[123,228,229,299,584],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7g3hj-C","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":257,"url":"http:\/\/re-design.dimiter.eu\/?p=257","url_meta":{"origin":38,"position":0},"title":"Climate science wars: The Lysenko move","date":"January 28, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has published a letter entitled 'No need to panic about global warming' which opines that \"There is no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to \"decarbonize\" the world's economy\" and \"Alarmism also offers an excuse for governments to raise taxes, taxpayer-funded subsidies for businesses that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Environmental policy"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":463,"url":"http:\/\/re-design.dimiter.eu\/?p=463","url_meta":{"origin":38,"position":1},"title":"Cutting funds for political science research","date":"May 11, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Just wanted to pass along this\u00a0troubling piece of news: In the US, the\u00a0House has voted to abolish funding for political science from the National Science Foundation altogether, and\u00a0to cut the American Community Survey - an in-depth representative survey providing data to policy makers (education, housing, etc). 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