Nearly two decades and $108 million worth of “disturbing” data
manipulation with “serious and far ranging” effects forced a federal lab
to close, a congressman revealed Thursday.
The inorganic section of the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Energy
Geochemistry Laboratory in Lakewood, Colo. manipulated data on a variety
of topics – including many related to the environment – from 1996 to
2014. The manipulation was caught in 2008, but continued another six
years.
Editor: BTW, this first paragraph is highly misleading. It implies the 108 million dollars were spent since 1996, when, in fact, it was spent since 2008.
“It’s astounding that we spend $108 million on manipulated research
and then the far-reaching effects that that would have,” Rep. Bruce
Westerman said at a House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing. “We
know how research multiples and affects different parts of our society
and our economy and … if you’re working off of flawed data it definitely
could be in a bad way.”
Westerman cited a recent Department of the Interior Inspector General
(IG) report that said impacts from the data manipulation “are not yet
known but, nevertheless, they will be serious and far ranging. The affected projects represented about $108 million in taxpayer funding from fiscal year 2008 through 2014.”
Smithson is lying again. This data fraud was in relation to water quality, not climate science.
ReplyDeleteThe Department of the interior deals with assessing the State of Water and Power in the West as it relates to the threat of global warming. The issues are not inseparable, and you know it. So stop with your word games.
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