National Academies of Sciences says no to demands it remove climate info

"Weighing in at just two sentences, the NAS says it used the same procedures to generate the climate chapter as it did for every other chapter, procedures that had been developed jointly with the Federal Judicial Center. 'The manual, including the chapter on climate science, will continue to be available on the Academy's website,' the response concludes."

"If political actors can determine which fields of established science are disfavored and off-limits to judicial education, every scientific discipline relevant to complex litigation becomes vulnerable to the same tactic."

State attorneys general requested the National Academies explain why a climate science chapter in a judicial reference manual lacked balanced science and asked what procedures would prevent similar advocacy-based chapters. The NAS responded two days before the deadline with a brief two-sentence reply stating it used identical procedures for the climate chapter as all others, developed jointly with the Federal Judicial Center, and that the manual would remain available online. The response provides no pathway forward for the attorneys general, who noted the NAS depends on federal funding but lack direct influence over it. Multiple authors of other manual chapters published an open letter opposing the political interference, warning that allowing politicians to exclude established scientific fields from judicial education threatens all scientific disciplines relevant to litigation.

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