Flyfish states:
One could easily find such complaints made
against Reagan, and if you were to dig deep enough you'd find at least
one, dare I say it, scientist arguing that *gasp* Clinton was ignoring
valid science related to certain trendy theories related to climate

and, I will repeat, there were no claims to my knowledge that either of those
two presidents expunged scientists from panels en masse. Merely, that they
ignored the advice(which, I thought I clearly stated at the outset, was the
right of the political folks to do). My problem is with not performing the
scientific analysis at all.
Tom