Benny Peiser says that there is a crisis in scientific journalism. He gives a great example of how the editors of New Scientist attempt to square the basic scientific principle of falsification of theories with resistance to attempted falsification of climate science. Meanwhile, scientists are attacking journalistic norms and, almost certainly without realizing it, the concept of procedural justice. While I mght disagree with Benny that this is yet a crisis, it seems to me that it is the front line in the battle between technocracy and democracy.
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Iain Murray is vice president for strategy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
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