Trump’s ‘Gold Standard’ for Science Manufactures Doubt | By emphasizing scientific uncertainty above other values, political appointees can block any regulatory action they want to.

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1. >it gives political appointees—most of whom are not scientists—the authority to define scientific integrity and then decide which evidence counts and how it should be interpreted…Political officials no longer need to rigorously disprove existing findings; they can cast doubt on inconvenient evidence, or demand unattainable levels of certainty, to make those conclusions appear unsettled or unreliable.

2. That’s the idea. Poison the public and tax them,

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