THE Bush administration is making a concerted effort to distort scientific data and prevent top scientists from holding key positions, to push a political agenda. So claims the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based non-profit organisation.
In February the UCS accused the Bush administration of “widespread and unprecedented” manipulation of scientific data. Government officials dismissed the charges, saying only isolated incidents had occurred.
But the latest UCS report claims such incidents are anything but isolated. It says that the Bush administration has indulged in “egregious disregard”, “distortion” and “censorship” of the scientific process in studies in a number…
