Cuccinelli Continues His Assault on the Present 0
Tom Levenson reports about Cuccinelli’s attack on science. A nugget:
The reason is, or should be obvious: once you start telling folks which answers are acceptable and which are not, you’ve just told those scientists under your power that they can’t think without thinking first whether those thoughts are acceptable.
And another thing: Cuccinelli may think he’s just stuffing climate change back in a box where it belongs. He may actually hope that hounding Mann may scare others off from daring to probe temperature records, or increasingly detailed global models or what have you.
He probably has, in fact, at least in VA. As noted above why would any atmospheric scientist, any geologist any planetary scientist whatsoever want to risk the career trashing experience of a full-on state-sponsored attack on your work, your records, your colleagues and students — just the time, years perhaps, lost to demonstrating to the political officer the orthodoxy of your views would be intolerable.