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‘Follow the Science’

The next time you hear an appeal to “follow the science,” be very careful about whose version of science you’re going to follow.
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‘Follow the Science’
Climate change activists hold signs while taking part in a climate protest in Los Angeles on May 24, 2019. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
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Proponents of net-zero, a Green New Deal, and a radical restructuring of society in the name of averting a climate catastrophe allegedly being precipitated by human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) repeatedly say, “Follow the science.”

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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