"For forty years – and especially since the early 1990s 'Gingrich revolution' in Congress and the triumph of neoliberalism... – the US government has been working hard to eliminate its own technical capacities. In their place, a constellation of lobbies, privately funded think tanks, and tax-subsidy farmers has grown up, many of them talented at projecting the impression of scientific authority, which crowds out whatever genuine authority may still exist." nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/ja