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A member of the media asked during the press conference if the scientists were influenced by the White House to alter their findings. The scientist who answered the question responded, “There was no political pressure for us to change anything in this report. This is about scientific integrity. None of the authors would participate in that kind of a process.”
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There is no political pressure for the vast majority of scientists to come to any particular conclusion.
There is, however, pressure from publication outlets to conform to certain standards and to work within certain theoretical paradigms. This may cause a subtle influence on the outcome of the results to lean in a particular direction.
Just look at physics pre-Einstein. Anybody who espoused his ideas prior to his work was laughed at. Then Einstein ushered in a paradigm, and suddenly everything is interpreted in terms of the new theory.
Science = data, nothing more. We can rely on their interpretation of their data, or we can take the conscious path and interpret it for ourselves (like people do on this forum every day). I'm sure they're leaving solar activity out of their model. It's called "willful ignorance."