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Science is one of the great achievements of the human mind and the biggest reason why we live not only longer but more vigorously in our old age, in addition to all the ways in which it provides us with things that make life easier and more enjoyable.

Like anything valuable, science has been seized upon by politicians, ideologues and activists who use it to forward their own agendas. This started long ago, as far back as at least the 18th century, when the Marquis de Condorcet coined the term “social science” to describe various theories he favored. In the 19th century, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels distinguished their own brand of socialism as “scientific socialism.”

By the 20th century, all sorts of notions wrapped themselves in the mantle of “science.” California’s UC school system is arguably, if not the center, it is one of the leaders of the “scientific socialism” movement within the academic community and government today.

“Global warming and diesel emissions” hysteria is only the latest in this long line of notions, whose main argument is that there is no argument, because it is settled “science.”

The recently revealed destruction of raw data at the bottom of the global warming hysteria and the credential and conflict of interest fraud at CARB, as well as revelations of attempts to prevent critics of this hysteria from being published in leading journals or used in important reports, suggests that the disinterested search for truth – the hallmark of real science – has taken a back seat to politically motivated social scientific crusades.