[Maceman]

it is inexcusable for EPA to justify billions of dollars of economically significant regulations on science that is kept hidden from independent reanalysis

If the evidence and findings are not available for independent reanalysis, then it is by definition NOT science.

[Charles Martel]

If the evidence and findings are not available for independent reanalysis, then it is by definition NOT science.

That's pretty much what an EPA scientist told McCarthy's predecessor - and was summarily fired or banished to some remote outpost. That raw data is an inconvenient truth, you might say.