Please stop, Greenwire, before we die of laughter.
JunkScience.com readers will remember that last September we reported about Fresno, Calif. U.S. District Judge Oliver W. Wanger excoriating U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service scientists for deception and zealotry with respect to the Delta smelt.
Today Greenwire reports,
An independent panel has cleared two Interior Department scientists of scientific misconduct, more than three months after a federal judge lambasted their testimony on an endangered fish as “false” and “outrageous.”
U.S. District Judge Oliver Wanger stopped short of accusing the employees of scientific misconduct in a September ruling, which dealt with the Fish and Wildlife Service’s justification for water pumping cutbacks to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. He instead called Jennifer Norris of the Fish and Wildlife Service a “zealot” and Frederick Feyrer of the Bureau of Reclamation “untrustworthy as a witness.”
But an independent panel of scientists — convened by Resolve, a nonpartisan “dispute resolutions” organization — found that neither Norris nor Feyrer violated standard scientific practice. In a recent report obtained by Greenwire, the panel asserts that no further action is needed on the issue. [Emphasis added]
First (we’re saving the best for last), only naive Greenwire readers would think that Resolve is “nonpartisan.” Check out its web site, and you’ll find that Resolve is as green as green gets, though it couches its views and services in banal corporatic bureaucratese.
Next — and you won’t read this in the Greenwire report — the Fish and Wildlife Service commissioned Resolve to do the “independent” review:
The Atkins/RESOLVE team was contracted by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to coordinate an external science review of the declarations and testimonies…
Did FWS pay for “exoneration”? You can judge that for yourself.
The closest Greenwire came to this issue was:
The report was commissioned by Interior, which launched the investigation soon after Wanger’s comments.
While FWS is part of the Department of Interior, Greenwire’s statement is clearly wrong (based on the Resolve admission) and can easily be construed as an effort to draw readers’ attention away from the FWS’ involvement.
Not only has Tran lied about his credentials. But his data was wrong by a factor of 10. The CARB is totally corrupt. Buying into the AGW, and the carbon scam.
It would be interesting to see what they call standard scientific practice. Having watched FWS bully landowners into believing Habitat Conservation Plans are important to protecting T/E species while the basis for their conclusions is highly suspect. The set the bar pretty low in their scientific practice.
Just more undeniable evidence of how compromised the public health sciences and related government agencies have become corrupted at almost every level concerning the environment. The level of deception and lack of balance in the media is partly to blame with the exception of this and other “denier” websites. Even FOX is a disappointment. Surely people cannot be this naive about how corrupt this has all become especially when a judge (in California) publicly ridicules such obvious unprofessional behavior. Even if these zealots were found to be “outrageous liars” their union would never allow them to be fired or even disciplined. Take for instance CA Air Resource Board Hien Tran, author of the science behind this agencies justification behind billions of dollars of wasteful diesel engine regulations who lied about his academic credentials – and is still working there.
The information is not on their website, but you have to wonder: how many of their clients are *not* exonerated?
The thing that would get up my nose is the fact that these zealots use your money to pursue their perverse claimes