The summer issue of Regulation features an illuminating article by Professor Stanley Trimble of UCLA on the politicization of science, particularly where the “green” religion has taken hold.
This piece is well worth reading for anyone who is engaged on this front. Here’s a taste. Trimble notes the exceedingly hostile reaction to the late Julian Simon, who had the nerve to question environmental gospel: “It was not necessary to logically disprove ideas with which one agreed; it was only necessary to vehemently disapprove of them, a stance that strikes me as ideological, religious, or both. What we were seeing with Simon was what we often saw on campus — the religious declaiming of the heretic.”
