President-elect Trump's transition team is requiring Energy
Department employees to answer 74 questions that appear to have two aims: (1) identify
which scientists work on climate change issues, particularly projects related
to the social costs of carbon (e.g., flood and sea-level projections); and (2)
punish scientists who are professionally active and successful.
Question 70 asks: “Can you provide a list of all
peer-reviewed publications by lab staff in the past three years?”
Question 71: “Can
you provide a list of current professional society memberships?”
Given the
anti-climate change nominee for the EPA (a different but related agency), the
aim here appears to be to run off scientists.
This is part of a broader societal trend that takes a hostile
view of science, universities, professors, experts, journalists and teachers
who value knowledge over myth, reason over fear, and facts over lies.
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