Vol. 36, No. 03
February 3, 2020
Correction, Please!
Radicals Employ “Science” as Cudgel Against Dissent
Item: The New York Times, in a page one article entitled “Trump Eroding Role of Science in Government,” in its print edition for December 29, stated: “In just three years, the Trump administration has diminished the role of science in federal policymaking while halting or disrupting research projects nationwide, marking a transformation of the federal government whose effects, experts say, could reverberate for years.”
The 3,400-plus-word piece (entitled online “Science Under Attack”) leaned heavily on remarks of former and disgruntled personnel who had worked for, or advised, various government departments; it alleged that, in addition to “shutting down some programs, there have been notable instances where the administration has challenged established scientific research.”
For instance, said the left-wing paper, aides to Scott Pruitt, “the E.P.A. administrator at the time, told the agency’s economists to redo an analysis of wetlands protections that had been used to help defend an Obama-era clean-water rule.”
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