It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while. – James Lovelock, well-know environmentalist

Thanks, James, but no thanks.  We’ll keep our freedom, you can keep the control.  But Lovelock is correct when he states that:

Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science,.  I’m not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It’s the one thing you do not ever do. You’ve got to have standards.

This is one reason why the following is true.  Government science is an oxymoron, and free science is redundant.  When you are behold to government, everything becomes political.  Everything.  From science to text book selection.  Freedom from government means freedom to decide for yourself, and if someone else doesn’t like it, too bad, they can decide for themselves.  It seems kind of obvious, but many people have forgotten it.