Hockey team member Ray Bradley: "Science must remain separate from politics"

Ray Bradley’s No-Holds-Barred Critique On Politics of Climate Change | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

Look no further than University of Massachusetts Professor Raymond S. Bradley’s just-published Global Warming and Political Intimidation: How Politicians Cracked Down on Scientists as the Earth Heated Up.

Bradley was one of the two co-authors of the much-discussed report leading to the iconic “hockey stick” image, seemingly destined to forever be climate contrarians’ favorite punching bag.
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He writes about preparing for a Barton-led House committee meeting, day-dreaming that he would open his testimony by saying, “‘I am now and have always been a climate scientist!’ When Barton asked me a question, I would respond by saying, ‘Congressman McCarthy — I mean, Barton ….’ I would refuse to take it lying down.”
Referring to Oklahoma Republican Senator James Inhofe’s commitment to “sound science,” Bradley writes that “It was analogous to Fox News appropriating the term ‘fair and balanced,’ when much of what the network reported on this issue was about as far from that standard as you could get.”
“It would not be too surprising if Barton’s view of the world was simply whatever he could see from the top of a drill rig …. I don’t need lectures from the likes of Joe Barton about respect for hard-working taxpayers.”
“Looking back on the whole experience with Congressman Barton and his henchmen, and Senator Inhofe and his bizarre obsession with the hockey stick graph …. the idea of killing off the graph became synonymous with discrediting the entire IPCC.”

You get the picture here: No academic niceties or “my good friend from the fine state of XYZ” here. Just plain-old hard-ball Ray Bradley. And his zingers aren’t reserved solely for legislators who get his goat, as when he points to “the usual lapdog bloggers and petulant whiners,” various “demagogues,” and “that paragon of well-balanced humility Rush Limbaugh.”
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“Science must remain separate from politics, but once scientists understand the issues, we must then decide our own political stance.

“By the same token, politics must stay out of science..."