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Generally, I like his evidence-based protocols over the predecessor, but #2 (in your list) is troubling (as implemented. Hes's a corruptocrat and must go ... b
by ci5er 8y ago
Generally, I like his evidence-based protocols over the predecessor, but #2 (in your list) is troubling (as implemented.
Hes's a corruptocrat and must go ... but I actually like the (general) balance (Cost-Benefit) of most (most! not all!) of his diktat moves.
Sometimes it feels as if that agency was arguing over parts in a million vs parts in a quadrilion. At some point - it just becomes too expensive to implement for no benefit except to guarantee jobs to a lifeless bureaucrat. (Well, I guess that was an assessment, so I should say: It seems so to me.)
- danso 8y ago> Sometimes it feels You claim in this and other comments to be someone who prefers "evidence-based" arguments and policy. But you've provided few if any references yourself to decisions you believe the Pruitt-led EPA have made that embody evidence-based decision making.
- ci5er 8y agoThis does not redeem him in my eyes (I don't actually like the guy), but here is a live by the sword, die by the sword example: - https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/how-the-epas-new-secret-science-rule/558878/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/how-the-...