Brussels-based thinktank Transport and Environment had warned for years about rigged tests but few listened before September.
And on the few occasions that the Missile Defense Agency has actually tested countermeasures, even these carefully rigged tests have never succeeded.
CO2 emissions contribute to climate change, while the nitrogen oxides (NOx) that VW rigged tests for are primarily a cause of local air pollution.
The latest tests of both the ground-based and sea-based missile defense systems have failed — and these were essentially rigged tests, where the intercept team knew the precise timing and trajectory of the incoming missile.
"A failure to intercept" (editorial, July 26) on the Pentagon's missile defense program and its rigged testing protocol rightly concludes that "it doesn't make sense to keep throwing money at a flawed system without correcting the problems first".
Regarding "The delusion of missile defense" (Views, Sept. 21), Yousaf Butt claims, erroneously, that the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense System depends on "essentially rigged tests, where the intercept team knew the precise timing and trajectory of the incoming missile".
The rally came as Pentagon officials heatedly denied one scientist's charges that they have rigged tests to hide the problem.
The rigged tests may have caused nearly 1 million metric tons of extra air pollution per year, according to an analysis by The Guardian.
(9) Enter teacher evaluations based on student performance on these rigged tests, and you begin to understand what standardized testing is really about -- providing the "legal" basis for evaluating teachers as the first stage in firing them.
Better to smother their desire for learning by an eternal night of rigged testing lest the excitement of critical thinking prove contagious and challenges policies of social injustice against a government that wages economic warfare against its own people.
