Tag: politicized science

CORRUPTION CHRONICLES More than three years—and no doubt a chunk of change—later, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is quietly shutting down its insignificant center dedicated...

BY CARL L. BANKSTON III With some misgivings, I’ve decided to renew my membership in the American Sociological Association and attend this year’s meeting. I...

JON E. DOUGHERTY, NEWSROOM AMERICA Defense Secretary Leon Panetta declared global warming to be a "national security" threat in a speech to an environmentalist group...

BY ALAN CARUBA According to Wikipedia, “A typical species becomes extinct within 10 million years of its first appearance although some species, called living fossils...

BY ALAN CARUBA According to Wikipedia, “A typical species becomes extinct within 10 million years of its first appearance although some species, called living fossils...

BY CARL L. BANKSTON III Immediately after Congress passed the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009, I saw colleagues in the university forming research...

POLITICIZED 'SCIENCE,' CORRUPTION CHRONICLES Less than a year after the U.S. government warned about global warming’s threat to the world’s food supply, a separate taxpayer-funded...

BY ALAN CARUBA I came of age in the 1950s during a period when Joe McCarthy was raising hell about communists in the federal government....

BY ALAN CARUBA Having written a series, “The BPA File”, in which I detailed the vast efforts made worldwide to ban bisphenol-A, a chemical in...

By Alan Caruba On February 16, I published “Anatomy of a Global Warming Hoax” concerning the theft of the private records of The Heartland Institute’s...

BY ALAN CARUBA Full disclosure: Years ago I received a small stipend from The Heartland Institute to help cover the costs of writing articles regarding...

Obama rejects Keystone XL jobs, promotes more wind and solar subsidies. What to do now? BY PAUL DRIESSEN President Obama “is focused like a laser on...

Obama rejects Keystone XL jobs, promotes more wind and solar subsidies. What to do now? BY PAUL DRIESSEN President Obama “is focused like a laser on...

ENVIRONMENT, NEWSROOM AMERICA National political leaders influence how much Americans worry about the threat of climate change rather than extreme weather events, new research has...

COURTS/ENVIRONMENT, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is dominated by Democratic-appointed judges, and many of its decisions have been overturned by...

EPA mercury rules for electricity generating units are based on false science and economics By Craig Rucker The Environmental Protection Agency clams its “final proposed” Maximum...

By Brad Fregger The conscious politicizing of science is one of the disasters of the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries....

Babbitt grasped everything from civil rights to environmentalism, with the fervor of such true believers as Puritan firebrands Jonathan Edwards and Cotton Mather. Making each good, honorable, noble ideal a part of his reason for being—even as these ideals ultimately degenerated into lifetime career opportunities for collectivists, demagogues and government bureaucrats.

Let us hope that the BPA ban is defeated in California and struck from an alleged food safety bill in Congress. The bans should be repealed in the states that have already passed them. Then we must undo the thousands of laws and regulations related to the junk science of global warming and similar hoaxes. - Alan Caruba

Alan Caruba says the global warming scam, an example of politicized science, was and is bad enough. Next, the BPA scare. BPA is a plastics additive bisphenol A, a chemical used to harden plastic that has been in wide consumer use for more than half a century, used to improve the safety and reliability of everything from DVDs and consumer electronics to sports safety equipment and shatterproof bottles. The environmentalists want it banned.