What they were looking at was funding that would keep them employed for a decade or more.
They all go for funding. The Wedge Strategy is quite different. It's a propaganda and lobbying front to put the cart before the horse, put support before any science.
The court was deciding between the opinions of one group of scientists as opposed to others. As to the board, no doubt that some of them did not “get” what was at issue. The court seems to have ruled against the board in part because religious rhetoric terms were used. But if board members were confused, it is because the law is confused.
Who was convicted of perjury?