Claim Check Needs to Do Fact Checks
David Kreutzer /
Claim Check, which supposedly fact checks public statements, employs the different-must-be-wrong-theory in dismissing a Heritage analysis because it is an “outlier.”
It seems that many forecasters in Washington are more afraid of being alone than they are of being wrong. That is, they would rather be wrong with everybody else than right by themselves. One such case is the set of assumptions underlying estimates of economic impacts of the Waxman–Markey cap-and-trade legislation.
Most of the analyses of Waxman–Markey based their cost projections on the following assumptions:
- A virtual doubling of nuclear power output over the next 25 years,
- Full commercialization of carbon capture and storage by 2025.
The United States has not licensed a single nuclear power plant for the past 30 years. Doubling nuclear power production would require roughly 100 new nuclear power plants by 2035. (more…)