As expected, the deniers here are all competing to see who can push their scientific Stalinism the most enthusiastically.
None of 'em can explain why looking at the data and methods is insufficient. All of that has been released, despite deniers all lying big and claiming otherwise. And we all know why they won't look at the science. It's because all the science contradicts them. Instead, they're reduced to attempting endless fishing expeditions so they can find more email snippets to lie about. It's the only tactic they have left.
The House science committee is worse than the Benghazi committee
The House science committee is worse than the Benghazi committee
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The science committee's modus operandi is similar to the Benghazi committee's — sweeping, catchall investigations, with no specific allegations of wrongdoing or clear rationale, searching through private documents for out-of-context bits and pieces to leak to the press, hoping to gain short-term political advantage — but it stands to do more lasting long-term damage.
In both cases, the investigations have continued long after all questions have been answered. (There were half a dozen probes into Benghazi before this one.) In both cases, the chair has drifted from inquiry to inquisition. But with Benghazi, the only threat is to the reputation of Hillary Clinton, who has the resources to defend herself. With the science committee, it is working scientists being intimidated, who often do
not have the resources to defend themselves, and the threat is to the integrity of the scientific process in the US. It won't take much for scientists to get the message that research into politically contested topics is more hassle than it's worth.
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Denialism is a modern incarnation of Stalinism, thus every loyal American is morally bound to oppose it.
