Letter to the editor: Politics has tainted science

I question the assertion in the letter “Vote out climate change deniers” (March 3, TribLIVE) claiming that “Every scientific organization in the world that conducts climate research has determined the planet is heating up and fossil fuels are the cause” and “every nation in the world … accepts that global warming threatens our world.”

In my opinion, this notion is wrong. There are many accomplished scientists, including Freeman Dyson, Bjorn Lomborg, Myron Ebell and Patrick Moore, who do not believe the world is in grave danger due to climate change caused by humans.

The problem is that science has become super politicized because scientists depend on government funding to do research. Thus, if any scientist doesn’t support the orthodoxy embraced by politicians who hold the purse strings that the world in on the brink of disaster caused by fossil fuels, they get no money and their careers are over.

Author Michael Crichton stated, “If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus.” Most of the great advances in science throughout history came from those who stood up to the “experts” and questioned the current conventional thinking.

The climate change crisis is an excuse for global elites to grab power and take away our freedom and replace our free market economy with a socialist command economy.

The question is, do we have the courage to fight for our freedom? Or is it true that Americans can hardly wait to vote themselves into slavery?

Dave Majernik

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