An Overreaching Attorney General - Reason Magazine

Researchers need to retain the right to be wrong—even woefully wrong. (In fact, insisting that scientists get it right misunderstands the scientific enterprise, under which even established dogma remains only contingently true.) If Mann and other climate-change alarmists are badly off course, time will prove it without Cuccinelli’s help. But if politicians start interrogating scientists whose work is open to question, then scientists may decide to stick with the safest, most well-established lines of inquiry—perhaps impeding scientific progress.