Thursday, April 29, 2010

The “Science” of Fundraising

Warren Meyer has taken a look at A Report Outlining the Research Needs on the Human Health Effects of Climate Change (pdf 80 pgs), published by the Interagency Working Group on Climate Change and Health and states the following.

Do you remember the State Science Institute report on Rearden Metal?  If you were like me, you thought that this ridiculous report was an exaggeration, a literary device to make a point.  But as in so much of Atlas Shrugged, I am finding that it was no exaggeration at all…

Remember, the point of this all is not science, but funding.  This is basically a glossy budget presentation, probably cranked out by some grad students over some beers, tasked to come up with scary but marginally plausible links between health issues and climate change.  Obama has said that climate is really, really important to him.  He has frozen a lot of agency budgets, and told them new money is only for programs that supports his major initiatives, like climate change.  So, every agency says that their every problem is due to climate change, just as every agency under Bush said that they were critical to fighting terrorism.  This document is the NIH salvo to get climate change money, not actual science.

Go and read the excerpt from the report, which falls between the two quotes above, which Meyer has posted at his site, and you’ll understand why I titled my post on this as above.  Warren’s post is titled Something for Atlas Shrugged Readers.

Posted by John Venlet on 04/29 at 09:07 AM
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