Elizabeth Warren - Ban Industry Junk Science

[Cheerful Charlie]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-industry-junk-science_n_5dc9e3abe4b0fcfb7f6b69a4

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Democratic presidential front-runner Elizabeth Warren called for a ban on federal agencies and courts using industry-funded “junk science.”

The policy memo was part of a broad campaign proposal to limit the influence of big business on regulations, but it came as a direct rebuke of the Trump administration’s latest effort to limit the research that regulators use to write rules.
In a Medium post published Tuesday morning, the senator from Massachusetts vowed to enact rules requiring industry players who submit non-peer-reviewed research to agencies or courts to disclose who funded the studies. Any studies found to present conflicts of interest “will be excluded from the rulemaking process and will be inadmissible in any subsequent court challenges unless the research has passed rigorous, independent peer review,” Warren wrote.

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I want to vote for Warren because she proposes common sense policies like this. It is time to get serious about industry promoted disinformation and pseudo-science. I just wish we could have a Democratic candidate debate on science, the role of science in American politics and the GOP war on science.

 

[Trausti]

Silly.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-...es-trumps-epa-seeks-limit-scientific-evidence

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The Trump administration is preparing to significantly limit the scientific and medical research that the government can use to determine public health regulations, overriding protests from scientists and physicians who say the new rule would undermine the scientific underpinnings of government policymaking.
A new draft of the Environmental Protection Agency proposal, titled Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science, would require that scientists disclose all of their raw data, including confidential medical records, before the agency could consider an academic study’s conclusions.
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Silly? Is this sort of GOP dislike for real science acceptable? Does anybody want 4 more years of this crap? And more industry junk science used to create more bad policies? Really!?

 

[Bronzeage]

Several years ago when Climate Change was still called Global Warming, I had a discussion with a man who said he didn't trust the evidence because all the research had been financed through government grants. Government financed science could not help but be influenced by, and support government agendas.

I told him, that's why I only read research papers issued by the American Tobacco Institute.

 

[dismal]

Given she’s known for junk research maybe this is a Nixon to China thing.

 

[Harry Bosch]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-industry-junk-science_n_5dc9e3abe4b0fcfb7f6b69a4

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Democratic presidential front-runner Elizabeth Warren called for a ban on federal agencies and courts using industry-funded “junk science.”

The policy memo was part of a broad campaign proposal to limit the influence of big business on regulations, but it came as a direct rebuke of the Trump administration’s latest effort to limit the research that regulators use to write rules.
In a Medium post published Tuesday morning, the senator from Massachusetts vowed to enact rules requiring industry players who submit non-peer-reviewed research to agencies or courts to disclose who funded the studies. Any studies found to present conflicts of interest “will be excluded from the rulemaking process and will be inadmissible in any subsequent court challenges unless the research has passed rigorous, independent peer review,” Warren wrote.

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I want to vote for Warren because she proposes common sense policies like this. It is time to get serious about industry promoted disinformation and pseudo-science. I just wish we could have a Democratic candidate debate on science, the role of science in American politics and the GOP war on science.

Great news! Hopefully, this will ban the site where she gets her information on nuclear power.

 

[barbos]

I support that but must add government funding is not without blame either. I have seen successful grant application taken straight from the cheap SciFi movie script - random word salad.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

And how do we determine exactly what is "junk science"?

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

And how do we determine exactly what is "junk science"?

No peer review is a good start.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

And how do we determine exactly what is "junk science"?

Will that junk science proffered to the government withstand expert and objective peer review?

 

[Gun Nut]

And how do we determine exactly what is "junk science"?

No peer review is a good start.

.. and the source of funding.. it was right there in the OP... quite clear, actually.

 

[Gun Nut]

And how do we determine exactly what is "junk science"?

Will that junk science proffered to the government withstand expert and objective peer review?

for the love of....

4 sentences in the OP... could't make it to the 4th?

 

[Jarhyn]

And how do we determine exactly what is "junk science"?

Will that junk science proffered to the government withstand expert and objective peer review?

for the love of....

4 sentences in the OP... could't make it to the 4th?

Of course they can't. It's kind of like Moscow Mitch refusing to watch impeachment hearings: if they DID read it they might have to admit that their political disagreements are based on ideology rather than logic.

 

[Elixir]

Silly.

Spoken like an actual victim of junk science.

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

There's junk on the public side of the line as well. I wonder if she also would take aim at that.

For those who actually would like an example, the California Air Resources Board is one.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I want to vote for Warren because she proposes common sense policies like this.

But how do you implement it?

 

[fromderinside]

I support that but must add government funding is not without blame either. I have seen successful grant application taken straight from the cheap SciFi movie script - random word salad.

OK. You have to document that statement.

 

[fromderinside]

I want to vote for Warren because she proposes common sense policies like this.

But how do you implement it?

Its convenient for companies to self publish 'research' since they can protect it from being explointed by other companies. Unfortunately they often publish opposition pieces under the same auspices as push back against actual science. The latter is the junk science of which Warren speaks It's quite simple to limit inclusion of that stuff refereed scientific journals. And it's nearly as simple to limit that material from being part of scientific review by regulating agencies in government. The problem arises when companies coopt recognized journals by buying off universities and agencies with grants and positions.

 

[HaRaAYaH]

I'll believe this when she stops using junk science to promote her tax scheme.....

 

[barbos]

I support that but must add government funding is not without blame either. I have seen successful grant application taken straight from the cheap SciFi movie script - random word salad.

OK. You have to document that statement.

OK, google "All Electron Battery" which got $500K grant. Applications and all patents are complete nonsense.
Of course they fooled not only the government but private sector as well when they started a company, but that's not taxpayers money.

LOL I googled them and they scammed the government for $1,498,681 already.