Flawed Science

Government science always gives the answer that government wants and there is no more clear cut example of that than the government’s inquiry into the effects of second hand tobacco smoke. In his excellent column for today’s Washington Times, Michael Fumento reminds us that the EPA was only able to declare passive smoke a health problem by violating their own rules, changing the confidence level of their 1993 meta-study from 95% to 90%. The government quite simply fudged the data and anyone paying close attention to the news has to realize that this kind of dishonesty is routine practice for many scientists on the public payroll.