When the Fukushima disaster struck, I wrote the following, suggesting this would be a "natural experiment in the politicization of science":
Today’s Republican Party has evolved to the point where the denial of climate science is mainstream within the party, or even dominant. Scarcely a day goes by without a Republican politician uttering something demonstrably incorrect on the subject. So here’s the question: Will leading environmentalists, elected Democrats, and other influentials on the other side of the aisle be caught engaging in similar abuses in the unfolding nuclear debate? Will they say things provably incorrect, in the service of trying to tank nuclear power? Or are liberals and conservatives today truly different when it comes to handling scientific information, no matter what their core political impulses may be? I, for one, am betting on the latter outcome. Just read comments at my blog: It’s a bunch of old lefties saying ...
