Scott Seidman wrote in
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Flyfish wrote in
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(Tom Littleton) wrote in
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Allen,
I would have expected better than a Fox News blurb....the truth
is, the Bush
admin has systematically eliminated scientists, with no regard to
anything other than the likelyhood of negative, scientifically based
conclusions, from a host of advisory committees. NO administration
has ever done so before, NONE!!
Tom


Hmm while I'm certain that these events may seem this way to you, the
claim that science is hostage to political power has been made many
times in my lifetime, and before, by differing people in service of
varying agendas. A certain astronomer from the middle ages may be the
most famous example of this sort of thing.

That Bush is a political whore goes without saying. Please list for
me the politicans who do not fall within that category? Off the top
of my head I cannot, for the life of me, think of a single one.

Flyfish

Actually, science does pretty well under conservative governments that
are willing to spend into deficit, if Reagan can be used as an
example, but Bush isn't doing very good things for science at all.

Scott


I would argue that hard sciences like physics did well under Reagan, less
popular sciences such as environmental sciences fared poorly.

Flyfish