Certainly it has also done so on climate change, with the nations expert community kept at arms length from the legislative drafting process. (scientificamerican.com)
We provide complete probability distributions, informed by a combination of expert community assessment, expert elicitation, and process modeling. (climateprospectus.org)
Boykoff argues that «By collapsing distinctions from evidence - based science to policy opinions, and by overlooking places where there is convergent agreement or divergent views within expert communities, public understanding has suffered» (page 73). (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)