{"id":23879,"date":"2017-03-29T13:20:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T18:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=23879"},"modified":"2017-12-06T19:15:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T01:15:06","slug":"clay-higgins-mccarthyism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/29\/clay-higgins-mccarthyism\/","title":{"rendered":"Clay Higgins: McCarthyism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scientists are now being subjected to unbridled McCarthyism.<\/p>\n

Eventually the transcript will be available, but for now you’ll have to just trust me on this. Congressman Clay Higgins, Republican on Lamar Smith’s alt-Science committee, demanded today to know if climate scientist Michael Mann (author of The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy<\/a>\"\", The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines<\/a>\"\", and By Michael E. Mann – Dire Predictions, Second Edition: Understanding Climate Change<\/a>\"\"“>this book<\/a>) is a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists<\/a>. It turns out that Mann is not. I wonder what would have happened if he was?<\/p>\n

Anyway, after Mann answered the question, Higgins demanded that Dr. Mann provide proof that he is not a member of the Communist … er, I mean, Union of Concerned Scientists.<\/p>\n

I’ve heard that the only way to prove that you are not a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists is to be tossed in a pond, and if you float, you are a member. (Or do I have that backwards?)<\/p>\n

Anyway, I made a nice card for Mike Mann to send in if he likes:
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And, of course, the obligatory Monty Python video:<\/p>\n