This morning Discovery Senior Fellow David Klinghoffer has a piece up in Human Events detailing the problem with the oft-heard claim, “Science says . . .”

President Obama echoed an often-heard lament when he complained recently that, among Americans, “facts and science and argument do not seem to be winning the day.” According to distressed cultural observers, public ignorance about science is evidenced by failure to accept global warming, “animal rights,” euthanasia and Darwinian evolution.
The assumption is that doubting scientists’ claims means you have divorced yourself from reality. Yet steadily accumulating stories from the scientific community itself suggest grounds for doubting that scientists all pursue truth without fear or favor. Last year’s “Climategate” email leak from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit is the best-known case, but hardly the only one.
If there’s any question on which science has spoken definitively, it’s supposed to be the theory that an unguided material process of natural selection accounts for life’s long development. A consensus of biologists appears to agree on this. Yet to what extent is that uniformity coerced — specifically, by employment pressure?

Read the whole thing here.