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August 1st, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Whoa, who are you, posting on my blog?? ;P
August 1st, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Obviously I’m against political interference in science, but these guys take billions of dollars from the federal government. Politics naturally follows federal money.
If you want to take the politics out of science then take the federal dollars out.
August 1st, 2008 at 2:16 pm
So I assume then that you take it as a given that the government can’t be trusted not to politically interfere in the science of the public sector. Is it therefore foolish to think that a law requiring such neutrality is reasonable or enforceable?
August 2nd, 2008 at 1:12 pm
If you could get such a law in the first place (asking politicians to limit their own power is pretty much impossible),I don’t see how it would be enforceable. How would enforce such a law? Even an independent body would need to be appointed by political figures.
August 2nd, 2008 at 2:15 pm
So it would follow that we should probably be ok with the way the DOJ was run with respect to hiring and firing for the last 7 years because laws like the Pendleton Act are foolish? It seems to me that until C-plus Augustus came to power, a great deal of care and effort was made protecting Civil Servants from partisan spoilage and patronistic interference. Hopefully Goodling and anyone else involved will be convicted. I’m not sure it will happen, but not because such laws are unenforceable, but rather are not enforced.
August 4th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Well, there’s more than one way to skin the cat. If you can’t honestly defend gov’t interference in basic research, then advocate against funding basic research in the first place! Keep those scientists quiet!
I didn’t know much about the world 8 years ago so I might’ve been naive but I didn’t think I’d be having a conversation about blatant concealment and spin of scientific knowledge being commonplace. 1/20/09.
August 5th, 2008 at 7:37 am
I voted for number 6 (also like 2).