Federal Lab Forced To Close After ‘Disturbing’ Data Manipulation

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Daily Caller:

Nearly two decades and $108 million worth of “disturbing” data manipulation with “serious and far ranging” effects forced a federal lab to close, a congressman revealed Thursday.

 

The inorganic section of the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Energy Geochemistry Laboratory in Lakewood, Colo. manipulated data on a variety of topics – including many related to the environment – from 1996 to 2014. The manipulation was caught in 2008, but continued another six years.

 

“It’s astounding that we spend $108 million on manipulated research and then the far-reaching effects that that would have,” Rep. Bruce Westerman said at a House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing. “We know how research multiples and affects different parts of our society and our economy and … if you’re working off of flawed data it definitely could be in a bad way.”

 

“The problems were so severe, in fact, that the USGS has already closed the inorganic lab in question permanently,” the Arkansas Republican said. The lab was terminated in January.

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Perhaps, these attorneys skipped their constitutional law class when they discussed the 1st Amendment in Law School. Liberal Attorneys General (AGs) from 25 states, territories, cities and counties have formed the “AGs United for Clean Power,” an organization designed come up with ways to prosecute people, organizations, and companies who are also climate skeptics.

One such tactic includes facilitating ongoing and potential joint investigations into whether fossil fuel companies and industry groups mislead the public about the dangers of climate change or the viability of renewable energy resources.

GOP members of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee are putting pressure on the liberal AGs by asking the the state attorneys generals in the group to reveal their communications with environmental organizations, mirroring what the “United for Clean Power” group is doing with climate skeptics .

 

The committee members sent letters to each of the 17 State AGs in the group trying to ban free speech. The letters “renew an earlier request to the state attorneys general for information detailing their communications with environmental organizations.”

 

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