How Science Abuses Politics
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Patrick J. Michaels is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and author of Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media.
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Scientists who seek an alternative to the fossil-fuel theory got a Senate hearing this week.
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For years, political scientists assumed our political leanings came from the way we were raised and the company we keep. You're a screaming liberal? Must be because you were raised in a household full of screaming liberals. You're an arch conservative? Must be because of that college you went to.
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Politics continue to complicate energy policy.
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Campaigns and candidates like to think they can escape the laws of physics. So both the Bush and Kerry campaigns claim with equal certainty they have gained momentum out of last weekâs TV debates.
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Scholars from different disciplines are crossing lines to share ideas about reducing the threat of climate change.
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Mixing science and politics, Nobel laureates and former presidential advisers are heading to campaign battleground states with a message that George Bush is no friend of scientists and should be replaced by John Kerry.
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The U.S. senate passes its version of a budget bill with deep cuts for science. Politicians blame the Iraq war, and wonder about the effects on research facilities like Fermilab, the United States' premier particle accelerator, and the International Linear Collider.
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The leading international science journal Nature has focussed the US presidential election campaign on science by asking both President George Bush and Senator John Kerry for their views on the major issues.
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Truth before fear Scientists hoping to educate the public about environmental concerns could do themselves and the public a favor by abandoning hyperbolic scare tactics in favor of straightforward talk, according to a prominent scientist.â¦
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It's supposed to be a golden rule from the schoolyard to the corporate suite and beyond: truth or consequences. But when it comes to politics, things are different.
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A longtime combatant in political science wars says a presidential debate on science is a bad idea.
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Social scientists say that linking emotional breakdowns to ballots cannot be dismissed easily.
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In the run up to the US presidential election, the science journal Nature has put 15 questions on current science debates to both candidates.
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Federal scientists have been pressured by the White House to play down global warming, advocacy groups testified Tuesday at the Democrats' first investigative hearing since taking control of Congress.
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More than 10,000 US researchers sign a statement protesting about political interference in the scientific process.
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Controversial statements by Harvard's president have added fuel to a debate that scientists say has no definitive answers.