the politics of science and the science of politics

Oh, if we could only get Science and Politics instead...

Here's Congress getting into "the game"-- but that's what you'd expect from an explicitly political body...

From Jillian Bandes at TownHall.com...

The Democratically-controlled Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming held a hearing yesterday to examine the science behind global warming. Two climate experts from the Obama administration testified, but when Republicans asked to have a global-warming skeptic at the hearing, Chairman Ed Markey (D-Mass.) refused to allow it....the two witnesses who were called, Dr. John Holdren, the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Dr. Jane Lubchenco, an administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, were not put under oath at the hearing.

Markey said that the reason they were not put under oath was because it would be “grandstanding.” But Markey insisted that coal executive be put under oath during hearings last month....