American Thinker93%
Addressing institutional rot 75%
By Bill Ponton0%
7/16/2026, 4:00:00 AM
Topics: Political Influence In Science, Critique Of Progressive Ideology, Leadership In Scientific Organizations, Debate On Climate Change
Keywords: Institutional Rot, Left, Institutions, Political Capture, Climategate, Michael Mann, Academia, Trump Administration, Political Rot, Professional Societies, Climate Change, Dei, American Geophysical Union, Agu, Brandon Jones, Equitable Partnerships, Co Creative Space, Regenerative Efforts, Sustainability, Restoration, Democratization, Inclusive Science, Equitable Science, Matthew Wielicki, U S Global Change Research Program, Usgcrp, National Climate Assessment, Climate Skeptic, Climate Hysteria, Severe Weather, Dei Grant Proposals
BS Summary: This article contains 32 faulty reasoning types, including Politically Right Leaning Bias, Negativity Bias, and Hasty Generalization, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 46.9% saturation with 284 hits. Analysis detected 1,738 faulty-reasoning hits from 605 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 67.3% and a BS Rank of 75% (4,283 of 16,550 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 74.10% of the article peer group.
Over the last 60 years, the Left has undertaken a long march through our institutions in a bid to capture them politically.
Its effort to weaponize these institutions to further its political aims and assault its opponents has been successful.
It was even apparent twenty years ago when Climategate surfaced, embroiling Michael Mann, creator of the infamous hockey stick, in scandal.
He received public scorn for his unethical behavior, uncovered in emails, but he managed to avoid professional censure from his university and remains an outspoken figure in climate science today.
This happened because the Left had secured the levers of power in most of academia by then.
The second Trump administration has purged government institutions and agencies under its control of political rot, comprised of individuals that previously felt הם insulated and unaccountable to the electorate.
The tactic has been successful, so far, in ridding hindrances to the implementation of administration policy.
Outside government, the situation has not improved.
Professional societies that had previously avoided political matters have leadership that embraces climate change and DEI wholeheartedly.
A case in point is the American Geophysical Union (AGU), an organization with the purpose of disseminating scientific information in the fields Earth and space sciences, and nothing highlights it more than the election of Brandon Jones as its president.
The following is a statement expressing his vision of the future for AGU.
A key feature of the strategic plan that excites me is the goal that focuses on partnerships.
A necessary factor that will ensure the development and sustainability of equitable partnerships is the need for co-creative space that elevates community needs in learning, research designs, and implementation planning.
The design of those spaces will serve to empower disproportionately impacted communities to have direct involvement in the regenerative efforts where science can be applied and where they can benefit and thrive.
In thinking about these new spaces, we must advance beyond sustainability (which is a key step), but towards the restoration of the many interlocked natural and physical systems that make up the original infrastructure for viable communities.
The democratization of the Earth and space sciences will require inclusive and equitable science innovation with an eye to ensuring that the 'fruits of science and technology are fully shared across all of America and among all Americans' - adapted from President Biden's 2021 letter to the incoming Office of Science and Technology Policy Director.
Jones goes on for two more paragraphs, but I did not have the heart to abuse the reader any further with his writing.
The passage is sufficient to convey the impression that Jones is a moron.
Contrast Jones with Matthew Wielicki, the man that Trump has chosen to lead the U.S.
Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) with responsibility for publishing the National Climate Assessment, a congressionally mandated evaluation of the effects of climate change on the United States, released every four years.
Matthew Wielicki is a geochemist and a climate skeptic.
Unlike Jones, he is not susceptible to fainting spells brought on by climate hysteria.
Here is what Wielicki has to say about attributing severe weather to climate change.
His words are sensible, but vociferously objected to by those like Jones who have marinated in an environment in which one speaks in paragraphs that sound like DEI grant proposals.
If only Jones were an anomaly, three-sigma off from the mean, but unfortunately, he is all too typical of those elevated to positions of leadership in both our public and private institutions.
Lost with the rot is the importance that these institutions once had in furthering science and understanding of our world.
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