The climate debate: When science serves the state

by N. Joseph Potts

Ludwig von Mises Institute

03/02/05

Government and science have found each other, and the spawn of this marriage look set to destroy global wealth on a scale that will render the greatest of history's wars trivial by comparison. The ultimate outrage of all this is that the people who are subjected to the ravages of the wrong-headed policies promoted by these self-seekers are taxed to pay for the production of this junk science to begin with. Scientists, like the rest of us, have among their number many members of a certain very dangerous group: those who would govern. And like the governing class everywhere, they seek to govern without the encumbrance of having to tolerate dissent from those who pay their salaries and experience the consequences of the policies they emplace...

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