[escepticos] Artículo que también hay que leer

["Pedro J. Hernández"]

Siento lo del inglés, pero una traducción mía perdería fuerza. ¿No creen 
que el segundo párrafo es perfectamente aplicable a muchos escépticos 
del consenso del IPCC?.

In his 2005 book, The Republican War on Science, journalist
Chris Mooney takes a longer view of the growing
attack, and a broader view of which specific topics are subject
to attack. For more than two decades, beginning with
the Reagan administration and then the Newt Gingrich
Congress, influential Republicans in concert with allies in
private industry and the religious right have systematically
denied, disparaged, or misrepresented scientific information
on topics relevant to public policy.
These topics can be divided into two groups. The first
includes global warming and ozone depletion. Here, those
representing business interests don’t overtly attack science,
rather, they attempt to wrap themselves in its mantle. They
exaggerate the limitations always present in research results
and emphasize the view of outlier scientists whose research
is rarely found in the refereed literature. In Orwellian fashion
their methods are described as “sound science,” in contrast
to the “junk science” on which regulatory agencies
presumably rely. By using so-called sound science to raise
the burden of a threat impossibly high, regulations to protect
the environment become virtually impossible.

http://www.thehumanist.org/humanist/AlHuebner.pdf