Posted on 06/24/2016 4:46:21 AM PDT by lowbridge
Nearly two decades and $108 million worth of “disturbing” data manipulation with “serious and far ranging” effects forced a federal lab to close, a congressman revealed Thursday.
The inorganic section of the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Energy Geochemistry Laboratory in Lakewood, Colo. manipulated data on a variety of topics – including many related to the environment – from 1996 to 2014. The manipulation was caught in 2008, but continued another six years.
“It’s astounding that we spend $108 million on manipulated research and then the far-reaching effects that that would have,” Rep. Bruce Westerman said at a House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing. “We know how research multiples and affects different parts of our society and our economy and … if you’re working off of flawed data it definitely could be in a bad way.”
“The problems were so severe, in fact, that the USGS has already closed the inorganic lab in question permanently,” the Arkansas Republican said. The lab was terminated in January.
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Colorado eh? Home base of the Eco warriors who left cal.
Cancel pensions.
You don’t think heads will roll?
I’m sure they will, just like they did at EPA after they destroyed the Animas River. Just like they did after the IRS destroyed conservative groups efforts in the last election. Just like they did at NASA after the global warning data falsification swindle. Just like they did at Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac after they destroyed the economy in the 2008 mortgage scam.mJust,like they did etc., etc., etc.
Lots will happen to punish the miscreants. After all, they operate under the same rules as you and me, don’t they?
You are such a cynic!
I actually remember the early years of this timeframe well. Clinton dissolved the Bureau of Mines (USBM) and slashed the USGS budget on the advice of Al Gore. Many Federal employees on the chopping block were shuffled around to various other parts of the Dept of the Interior so they wouldn’t lose their years towards retirement. The Lakewood complex was turned upside down trying to absorb and mitigate the damage.
And yet, it’s those who don’t believe the false data that need to be punished.....
To liberals manipulating data is legitimate because they believe they are manipulating reality. Reality is purely a mental construct so any way they can make people accept the “proper” reality is good. If it is proclaimed by the people who know what the world should be then it is real.
Civil Service will guarantee that a few people will be shifted to other agencies and/or promoted. Their good intentions will be honored and rewarded. The more skilled will be taken by other agencies to produce more bogus research to support more globalist fantasy.
Analytical data within the EGDB includes rock-eval pyrolysis, organic mass spectrometry, vitrinite reflectance, gas chromatography, stable carbon isotopes, inductively coupled plasma, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, mercury analysis and a number of other related geochemistry analyses that, in some instances, predate the EGDB. Throughout the years the Energy Program scientists have utilized these data to not only develop an understanding of the physical and geochemical processes responsible for hydrocarbon formation, but also as a tool to assess the oil and gas potential for sedimentary basins in both national and international settings.
There you have it in a nutshell. Now we all know why this is so important/s
It would be news if gov’t research was found to be objective and honest.
All “Federal data” is manipulated. This isn’t “unexpected”.
Just like those global warming/climate change (wish they’d make up their minds as to which is which) data that’s been manipulated.
This is tip of the iceberg: We also have fake research in other scientific areas, doctored economic statistics, fake data on social issues, HMDA data that distorts lending practices. Leftists have crafted a statistical and research industry that creates its own version of circumstances for political advantage.
In other words, it is routine for leftists and the government bureaucracy to commit fraud to influence the American public for political advantage.
It is past time to charge the mound. . . .
After due process and being raked over the coals in a trial. The agency must be embarrassed otherwise they and others like them will continue their practices.
“the lab” didn’t manipulate the data, someone or a group of someones manipulated the data. It’s in the public interest to know the name of that person (or people). Once those people are identified, then congress can get to the business of finding out how or why it was manipulated. Incompetence is as likely as malice, but it’s bad in both cases.
It’s also in the public interest to know if any of that raw data is recoverable. Assuming the data being processed was really worth whatever money we spent on it, if the unadulterated data is still available, the government could recoup some of its losses for the public by reprocessing it correctly.
LOL, you are correct sir. I don't believe a single, solitary word that any government drone tells me, until I have a chance to check it out for myself. If some government POS tells me the sky is blue, I am going outside to see if it is true. 😀
Throughout the years the Energy Program scientists have utilized these data to not only develop an understanding of the physical and geochemical processes responsible for hydrocarbon formation, but also as a tool to assess the oil and gas potential for sedimentary basins in both national and international settings.””
Perhaps an attempt to hide data that would indicate that oil formation is an ongoing geologic process instead of a pool of dead dinosaurs?
Unless the perpetrators of said mischief are indicted, tried, and punished/incarcerated for their malfeasance what will prevent them moving on to another agenda driven pursuit?
Fake government data bump for later....
And just think about all those chemicals that get banned on a daily basis because they were found to be dangerous.
Once they got away with the first great second hand smoke study (involving a whopping 6 couples), “proving” that it was as dangerous as smoking is for the smoker, the floodgates were opened.
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