CONSPIRACY

Bush administration promotes ideology over science

The Administration's political interference with science has led to misleading statements by the President, inaccurate responses to Congress, altered web sites, suppressed agency reports, erroneous international communications, and the gagging of scientists.' So stand the charges leveled against the Administration by Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D.-Calif.) and the minority staff of the House Government Reform Committee's impressively titled special investigation division. Their 33 page report (found at Politicsand Science.org) represents a litany of charges against the Bush administration for unwarranted political interference with science. Yet the report, in its desperate attempt to score political points, is as guilty as its targets of confusing politics and science. Those who wish to see science defended need something better than this.