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On eve of Trump, Obama’s Energy Department announces new policy to protect scientists
WaPo ^ | 1/11/17 | Chris Mooney

Posted on 01/12/2017 12:05:49 PM PST by ColdOne

Speaking at the National Press Club Wednesday, outgoing Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced a new “scientific integrity” policy for an agency recently wracked by concerns about how an administration led by President-elect Donald Trump will treat employees who worked on climate change and other sensitive energy-related issues.

“It’s part of establishing the environment that allows scientist to do their work, to stay with us, and to recruit new people,” Moniz said in announcing the new policy.

Moniz, a physicist, gave an example of his own role in negotiating the Iran nuclear deal. “Seven of our laboratories were providing near real-time support to our negotiating positions in a highly technical negotiation,” Moniz said, “and I

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: bhoenergy; doe; energy; ernestmoniz; irandeal; iraniannukes; moniz; physicists; scientists; trumpenergy; trumptransition
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To: JayGalt
"That is one seriously strange looking dude."

That's a man, pretending to be a woman, pretending to be a man ....

That's a tranny trans-man ...

21 posted on 01/12/2017 12:28:20 PM PST by BlueLancer ("If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future." Winston Churchill)
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To: ColdOne
One, how do they expect a "new policy" to protect anyone? Do they think the next administration cannot/will-not simply change that policy? Idiots.

Two, if what passes for "climate science" was real science and had a shred of integrity, it would not need artificial protections. The fact that the scammers in place feel the need to try to stack the deck in their favor is yet another in a long long list of examples of how phony the whole global warming scam is.

22 posted on 01/12/2017 12:44:48 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: 2banana

Well, that worked in Oregon, didn’t it Gov. Kulongoski.


23 posted on 01/12/2017 12:48:01 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: ColdOne

Are they an endangered species? Maybe they added them on the list..


24 posted on 01/12/2017 12:48:55 PM PST by Davy Crocket
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To: ColdOne

Sounds like a double-standard. Surprise, surprise.


25 posted on 01/12/2017 12:50:28 PM PST by ChessExpert (It's not compassion when you use government to give other people's money away.)
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To: ColdOne

Cut their funding. End of story.


26 posted on 01/12/2017 12:50:37 PM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: nikos1121

Is that Hair for when he’s in Drag ?


27 posted on 01/12/2017 1:02:39 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: ColdOne

It won’t work Obamba!


28 posted on 01/12/2017 1:02:49 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: ColdOne

Well, that means they can relax...for a week.


29 posted on 01/12/2017 1:10:03 PM PST by gogeo (But he's not a conserrrrrvative!)
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To: ColdOne

These geniuses must not know that it’s OUR money they are playing with. What the government gives, the government certainly can take away.


30 posted on 01/12/2017 1:21:06 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: nikos1121

I think they haul that guy out every fundraising season on PBS. He looks public broadcasting anyway...


31 posted on 01/12/2017 1:32:04 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain (The choice to be stupid is not a conviction I am obligated to respect.)
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To: ColdOne

“Moniz, a physicist, gave an example of his own role in negotiating the Iran nuclear deal.”

That wasn’t overly bright. He should have picked an example where they didn’t make fools of themselves!


32 posted on 01/12/2017 1:33:49 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Dan Rather, a 60 Minutes Investigative Reporter for CBS, invented "Fake News"-fake but accurate.)
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To: txrefugee

>>>>Moniz, a physicist, gave an example of his own role in negotiating the Iran nuclear deal. “Seven of our laboratories were providing near real-time support to our negotiating positions in a highly technical negotiation,” Moniz said,<<<<<<

IRAN. That’s the REAL issue they want to protect. I wonder how much of the Iran deal is connected to this issue???


33 posted on 01/12/2017 1:37:01 PM PST by PrairieLady2
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To: ColdOne

If the Department needs a “scientific integrity” policy, then it is probably lacking scientific integrity.


34 posted on 01/12/2017 1:59:23 PM PST by oblomov (We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
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To: ColdOne

Scientific integrity... like they practice in the area of Climate Change?


35 posted on 01/12/2017 2:00:37 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Didn’t read the article because I won’t click on the WaPo, but read the short blurb. Agree, if Moinz is an example of the type scientist they employ, they are not scientists but political hacks masquerading as scientists — driven by their politics and not science. To use the Iran deal as an example of good science is absurd.


36 posted on 01/12/2017 2:11:33 PM PST by falcon99
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To: ColdOne

Recind, recind, recind.


37 posted on 01/12/2017 4:00:04 PM PST by noah (noah)
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To: ColdOne
The document also embraces a strong commitment to whistleblower protection laws and says the agency will install a “scientific integrity official” within the Energy Secretary’s office to head up enforcement of the policy.<<<

LMAO!...It's Amazing how Trump can make them CUT THEIR OWN THROATS!....Trump can now appoint a real “scientific integrity offical” and fire 2/3rds of them for lack of integrity!!!....Will the winning ever stop!

38 posted on 01/12/2017 5:22:19 PM PST by M-cubed
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To: ColdOne
The document also embraces a strong commitment to whistleblower protection laws and says the agency will install a “scientific integrity official” within the Energy Secretary’s office to head up enforcement of the policy.<<<

LMAO!...It's Amazing how Trump can make them CUT THEIR OWN THROATS!....Trump can now appoint a real “scientific integrity offical” and fire 2/3rds of them for lack of integrity!!!....Will the winning ever stop!

39 posted on 01/12/2017 5:22:29 PM PST by M-cubed
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To: Grampa Dave

And then .. we could (if we’re smart), elect Mike Pence for another 8 years.

Sounds good to me.


40 posted on 01/12/2017 5:32:46 PM PST by CyberAnt (Peace through Strength)
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