[nathanbedford]

If this is happening in the peer reviewed "hard" sciences can you imagine what is happening in the "science" of economics?

It does not even bear thinking about to consider what is going on in the social "sciences."

Finally, what is about to happen in the census will make Potemkin proud. It is upon this data that much of the government's plans for your life and mine will be predicated. The temptation to cook that book will be irresistible.

[dsc]

“The temptation to cook that book will be irresistible.”

What, specifically, is the danger? Aside from gerrymandering, what can be accomplished by falsifying census data?