Falsifying Environmental Data?

28 March 2002 - 10:00am

A columnist for the Wall Street Journal argues that "scientific fraud" by the environmental community is out of control.

"So why the lying? It seems deceit is the only way the greens can advance their Luddite agenda. They are ideologically inspired to try to limit, slow and if possible stop economic growth, for they believe that prosperity is harmful to the environment. But our nation's and the world's environments are getting better all the time, in fact so much better so much faster that it is hard to wave the green shirt based on honest data. Subterfuge and misrepresentation are thus left to energize the greens' antiprosperity cause."

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Source: Wall St. Journal, March 27, 2002
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