Science, Politics Collide in Election Year (AP)

With more than 4,000 scientists, including 48 Nobel Prize winners, having signed a statement opposing the Bush administration's use of scientific advice, this election year is seeing a new development in the uneasy relationship between science and politics.

In the past, individual scientists and science organizations have occasionally piped up to oppose specific federal policies such as Ronald Reagan's Star Wars missile defense plan. But this is the first time that a broad spectrum of the scientific community has expressed opposition to a president's overall science policy.

Last November, President Bush gave physicist Richard Garwin a medal for his ``valuable scientific advice on important questions of national security.'' Just three months later, Garwin signed the statement condemning the administration for misusing, suppressing and distorting scientific advice.

Scientists' feud with the Bush administration, building for almost four years, has intensified this election year. The White House has sacked prominent scientists from presidential advisory committees, science advocacy groups have released lengthy catalogues of alleged scientific abuses by the administration and both sides have traded accusations at meetings and in the pages of research journals.

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/science/AP-Bush-Scientists.html

4000 scientists versus 40 swift boat liars, and the media gives the swift boat liars all the air time.

How about 10 days of free press for the anti-Bush scientists?

More liberal media.

that the press does not bother with. Even TV news could, and should, make this issue and its significance understandable to the people. Maybe the Kerry campaign could somehow bring the issue to light --

backwards society,

I would give just about anything to see a Scientist elected president some day.

are just a bunch of out of the mainstream intellectual elitists...
:crazy:

who needs intelligence anyways?

was bad.....These guys are educated and they see Bush is bringing down our Colleges and Research facilities

letting them all go to China Russia and India

How Long before we lose the technology edge...I think we already have but another 4 years of Bush will devastate this country

The Cult of Busholini the Coprocephalic is purging the heretics. El Smirko the Wiseass is infallible. He says so. God speaks through him. He said so, ex catheter.

and smirk are the standard bearers.