“I think this is a brilliant solution, if your science gives you a result that you don’t like, pass a law saying the result is illegal. Problem solved.” - Stephen Colbert
Quoted by Robert S. Young, “A Scientists’ March on Washington Is a Bad Idea”, New York Times, 2017-01-31, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/opinion/a-scientists-march-on-washington-is-a-bad-idea.html
His argument is that a march politicizes science and then gives anti-scientists opportunity to denigrate scientists yet again.
Young cited a case in which the North Carolina legislature passed a law “that barred state and local agencies from developing regulations and planning documents anticipating a rise in sea level.” This was in response to the uproar from real estate and economic development interests.
Let me guess. All these who supported the law were all for free markets. That is free to withhold crucial information from buyers who in a true free market have all the information they need.
