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The guy who changed the hurricane track to go through Alabama in 2019 at Trump’s order was charged in a violation of scientific ethics.

Give them what they voted for – good and hard.

{{ Dr. Jacobs was the acting head of NOAA in the first Trump administration when Mr. Trump claimed in the summer of 2019 that Hurricane Dorian would hit Alabama. After a NOAA meteorologist in Alabama posted on social media that Dorian would not affect Alabama, Mr. Trump’s staff ordered NOAA leaders to say the meteorologist had been wrong, or risk being fired.

Dorian did not reach Alabama. But Dr. Jacobs bowed to that pressure, releasing a statement that called the posting by its Alabama weather office “inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time.” An investigation into the incident later rebuked Dr. Jacobs, saying he had violated the agency’s code of ethics. }}

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Sounds like the same scenario as during the run-up to passage of Medicare Part D. The POTUS was assuring deficit hawks in Congress that the program would not cost more than a certian figure. Meanwhile, an actuary at CMS worked out that the program would cost a lot more than what the POTUS was saying. The actuary’s boss, who the head of HHS had given an ethics code waver to, so he could interview for a job as a drug company lobbyist, ordered the actuary to keep his findings secret. The POTUS pushed Part D through. The next day, the POTUS announced that the program would cost a lot more than what he had promised Congress it would cost, just like the actuary had said it would.

Onward Shiny-land.

Steve

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