#cfact (mark hendrickson)

By Mark Hendrickson, Ph.D. ~

We all know what happens when government decides to interfere with free markets by subsidizing the production of something that is uneconomical with the subsidies: Taxpayers shoulder the costs and cronyism is the name of the game because subsidies go to the politically connected.

[An important economic: Please don’t call such pork-barrel politics is “crony…

By Mark Hendrickson, Ph.D. ~

You can debate the details, but for my generation (the baby boomers who went to college in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s) the modern environmental is a half-century old. The movement was a twinkle in Rachel Carson’s eye when she published in Silent Spring1962. Its embryonic stage included the dissemination of alarmist (and spectacularly wrong) predictions such as those…

By Mark Hendrickson, Ph.D. ~

Radical environmentalism sees truth as a threat to its objectives. Propaganda (whether outright lies, exaggerations, or distortions) in pursuit of green goals is justified.

Perhaps the most famous example of green propaganda has been the persistent claim that 97% of climate scientists agree that man-made climate change endangers the planet. Studies sporting the 97%…