Climate scientist Pat Michaels spoke yesterday at a John Locke Foundation luncheon and gave a talk on the politicization of science (particularly climate science, but with general applicability) that is both fun and enlighten ing. The video is here and I recommend it.

Everyone knows about Ike’s 1961 warning about the military/industrial complex, but in the same paragraph of that famous speech, he also expressed concern about the science/education complex and foresaw that bad consequences would result from establishing a money conduit from the federal treasury to the universities.