Union of Concerned Scientists

"Scientists" with Pants on Fire

This looked pretty interesting at first blush. ''The A to Z Guide to Political Interference in Science," using a periodical chart device to expose the danger posed to our freedoms, not to mention wallets,  by the ATLA/Government complex. Let's click on C Since taking office, the George W. Bush administration has consistently sought to undermine the public’s understanding of the view held by the vast majority of climate scientists that human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases are making a discernible contribution to global warming. What's the name of this group again ...? HFS, it's the © Union of Concerned Scientists ... a component of Algore's fabled ''overwhelming consensus" on global warming.  But, wait! Here's a group who specialize in putting people like UCS under a microscope - The Center for Consumer Freedom Here’s how it works: UCS conducts an opinion poll of scientists or organizes a petition that scientists sign. Then it manipulates or misconstrues the results in order to pronounce that science has spoken. In 1986 UCS asked 549 of the American Physical Society’s 37,000 members if Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was “a step in the wrong direction for America’s national security policy.” Despite the biased wording of the push-poll question, only 54 percent disapproved of SDI. Even so, UCS declared that the poll proved “profound and pervasive skepticism toward SDI in the scientific community.” We report, you decide  But no matter what you conclude, I'm still hanging all these UCS people when I'm in charge.