Removing the climate science chapter “is absurd,” said Hank Greely, a bioethicist and director of Stanford University’s Program in Neuroscience and Society, who co-authored the chapter on neuroscience. “It’s part of the partisan denial that anything about climate change could be at all real.”

Greely called it “deeply annoying” to see political interference affect a reference manual that has been a useful resource not just for federal and state court judges but also for the attorneys who practice before them.

“I am pleased the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has not taken the chapter out,” said Greely, who has used the neuroscience chapter from the manual in his classes.