Science? Science? We dun need no stinkin' science!
” She defended the EPA’s “high-quality science,”....”
The scientific method involves trying to disprove hypotheses.
Politics involves trying to convince voters that you’re right. When politicians use ‘science’ to make their case, what they really mean is some ‘scientist’ found something that supports their case. A polite term for this is “confirmation bias”. There are innumerable less polite terms for it. Whatever it’s called, it is most certainly not “high-quality science”.
Science? Science? We dun need no stinkin' science!