There's a good chance many Americans aren't familiar with the most important story of 2010. The big-government-friendly media ignored it. The President, clearly, continues to pretend it didn't happen. And science teachers have never heard of it, as evidenced by their continued adherence to alarmist orthodoxy.
The story is perhaps not only the most important of this passing year, but of this century's first decade. It consists of one resignation letter: that of Harold "Hal" Lewis, Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara. In this letter he exposes "the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud" of his lifetime, and the machinations behind keeping that fraud alive. He also puts the lie to the claim that those who have not fallen for this fraud are know-nothings. Clearly, Hal Lewis knows his science.
Happy New Year.
