Whatever one makes of President Trump’s chosen words, the underlying demand – that a body claiming the authority of disinterested science should actually be disinterested – is one any serious…
Tag: NASEM
Yet Another Embarrassment From The National Academy Of Pseudoscience
The federal government needs to completely defund the NAS today, if not sooner. Also, I call on every member of the NAS to resign. If you stay in, you are…
Trump Demands Review of ‘Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence’ Used by Federal Judges
When taxpayer dollars fund studies and guidance that may shape litigation, regulation, and national policy, transparency is not optional but essential, and Congress has every right to demand full visibility…
Extreme Attribution Gets a National Academies Upgrade: But the Weakest Link Problem Remains
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a new report, Attribution of Extreme Weather and Climate Events and Their Impacts, accompanied by a press release announcing that…
NASEM and “Independent Science”
The whole arrangement runs on the reputation. The reputation was earned over a century and a half of real work, and it is now being spent down, a chapter at…
National Academies Go Preposterous on CO2
You would think the National Academy of Sciences understands science, but you would be wrong. Their President just approved a report the conclusion of which is scientifically impossible!
The Climate Change−Air Quality−Public Health Fallacy
[Our question] How can updating the Reference Manual to address junk science best be accomplished given such a massive input from entrenched academics in the past?