Scientocracy Quotes

“The damage caused by opioids is largely caused by their prohibition,”
― Patrick J. Michaels, Scientocracy: The Tangled Web of Public Science and Public Policy

“another tactic being used to leverage more grant money from Congress—namely, the exaggeration of threats. Since the 1960s, environmental scientists have sequentially forecast existential threats from overpopulation, pollution, extinctions, global cooling, acid rain, global warming, stratospheric ozone depletion, low-level ozone increases, and fine-scale particulates. Ocean acidification looms on the horizon as the next threat.”
― Patrick J. Michaels, Scientocracy: The Tangled Web of Public Science and Public Policy