History and studies suggesting a conservative bias under stating dangers This section s rationale is clearly flawed in that it confuses the word conservative with the meaning of cautious which is obviously what a preliminary scientific statement must be and is accordingly described as such by all sources with the politically charged word conservative Just because a scientist is eventually overcautious and may understate his predictions so that they are not hijacked by scaremongers and susceptible laymen including journalists it doesn t mean that he is politically speaking a conservative or just too business friendly It means he is doing his job well and responsibly that is with caution These two concepts of being conservative are conflated here into one single line of criticism which is obviously absurd and simply reflects the rampant POV of this section as if relying on commondreams org as an encyclopedic source wasn t POV enough