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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 11:24 AM
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Bush's changes to advisory process draw scientists' ire
by Dan Vergano USA Today

A bispartisan, all star roster of Nobel Prize winners and former federal science officials accused the Bush administration Wednesday of politicizing science.

"When scientific knowledge has been found to be in conflict with its political goals, the administration has often manipulated the process through which science enter into its decisions," charges a document signed by 60 scientists in an unprecedented joint effort by the leaders of the nation's science establishment.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-02-18-bush-scientists_x.htm

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Dudley_DUright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 11:32 AM
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1. Glad to see USA Today picked up on this story
Edited on Thu Feb-19-04 11:36 AM by Dudley_DUright
Here is the link to the original press release at the Union of Concerned Scientists website (which is still very slow!)

http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release.cfm?newsID=381

edit: fixed link
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Dudley_DUright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 11:39 AM
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2. I certainly am not impressed with John Marburger's initial reaction
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy chief John Marburger dismissed the criticism as a "conspiracy report" of "disconnected issues that rubbed somebody the wrong way." He said the administration must better explain its processes to scientists.



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