It’s as broken as peer review.
As with civil (and military) space, we have a 20th-century system in place for the 21st century.
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Related: Why scientists hide their doubts about global warming from the media.
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When you say “the science is settled,” you are arguing for an end to your research funding.
Oops.
This is all part of the Democrats’ war on science:
Looking forward to a new U.S. President next year, whether the Democrats or the Republicans are in power, I don’t expect a continuation of the status quo on climate science funding. The Democrats are moving away from science towards policy – who needs to spend all that funding on basic climate science research? Global climate modeling might be ‘saved’ if they think these climate models can support local impact assessments (in spite of widespread acknowledgement that they cannot). If the Republicans are elected, Ted Cruz has stated he will stop all funding support for the IPCC and UNFCCC initiatives. That said, he seems to like data and basic scientific research.
Heh.
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“It’s a bit complicated.”
You don’t say.
Loren Grush has a good summary. Everyone recognizes that this is going nowhere, but the monster rocket people don’t care.
I think Phil Klein has it right on how Trump will end his candidacy.
This article at The Space Review seems profoundly ignorant of economics and history, including the history of the Moon Treaty, because that basically seems to be what he’s proposing.
…its water quality would be fine.
Government is just a word for things we do together, like charging city residents for toxic water that will cause permanent brain damage to their kids.
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Flint residents can’t sue the government. Unlike if the water company had been private like (say) General Motors. Isn’t that convenient?
Dale Skran critiques a strawmannish article from a few days ago, so I don’t have to.
A roundup of links and discussion of the latest in scientific “transparency.”
In my opinion, science that has any policy implications (I’m looking at you, climate and nutrition) has gone completely off the rails.
They are figuratively all Joe Biden now.
All this angers Americans with experience in our military and intelligence services who understand what Ms. Clinton and her staff did—and that they would be held to far harsher standards for attempting anything similar. They know that brave Americans have given their lives protecting Top Secret Codeword information. They know that in every American embassy around the world, our diplomatic outposts that worked for Hillary Clinton, Marine guards have standing orders to fight to the death to protect the classified information that’s inside those embassies. That Hillary Clinton gave similar information away, by choice, is something she needs to explain if she expects to be our next Commander-in-Chief.
She has no explanation, at least not one that doesn’t make it look even worse.
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“Her disregard wasn’t casual. It was a conscious and involved scheme to avoid the Freedom of Information Act, and possibly also Obama Administration scrutiny of her actions. She put the nation as a whole at risk, along with individual lives of intelligence sources, for political reasons: to avoid accountability.”
As she’s been doing, and gotten away with, for decades. Why wouldn’t she assume that she’d continue to not be held to account?
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The FBI director would like to indict both Clinton and Abedin.
Analysis: Likely.