In addition to the ample evidence of dodgy science in anti-doping, this quote from @wada_ama spokesman @JamesFitz501 is key: “the U.S. has been consistent in its strongly held position that WADA should keep cannabis on the List”
The US government took credit for getting marijuana on the (then) IOC prohibited list as a matter of national anti-drug policy despite greater concern of athletes and officials on actual performance-enhancing drugs
I came across this (by Sarah Miller HT @dwallacewells) which I think well summarizes challenges to discussing extremes
“I realize I could cite some data to support this but I’m not going to look anything up because I don’t want to know the truth. I’m comfortable with “It’s bad””
The WADA committee recommending THC inclusion on prohibited list for reasons of morality includes people who also played a role in banning Caster Semenya — another moral crusade
Mostly white men from US/UK/Australia, elite sport vests too much power in a small subset of people
How Climate Scenarios Lost Touch With Reality
A failure of self-correction in science has compromised climate science’s ability to provide plausible views of our collective future
I'll post as soon as out of production ...
Our new paper is a tl;dr summary for a broad readership of our recent 21,000-word piece in ERSS on how climate scenarios got off track doi.org/10.1016/j.erss…
If you are not one of the 7 people who read that magnum opus, then our new paper is for you
When published, I'll also post an accompanying bibliography of our work over the past 20 years on the use/misuse of predictions and projections in climate research and policy
This hearing today reflects a wild mix of deeply flawed science
RCP8.5 & Billion-dollar disasters
Addressing Climate as a Systemic Risk: The Need to Build Resilience within Our Banking and Financial System | Financial Services Committee financialservices.house.gov/calendar/event…
The hearing is on legislation that would, among other things, create a powerful new technical committee composed of 5 climate scientists and 5 economists that would create scenarios with huge impact on US finance policies -- this is all sorts of problematic
The legislation also mandates the content of the scenarios: 2 policy scenarios, one NDC and one a conventional BAU
Remarkable statements 1. Under China biosafety regulations apparently novel viruses assumed to be relatively safe (BSL-2) until proven risky 2. US funded research follows laws of host country and not US biosafety regulations ... would seem to create poor incentives for scientists