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They Blinded Me With Pseudo Science

Bush Administration Waves Off Scientists Whose Findings Are Inconvenient

If you don't like the science, change the scientist -- that seems to be the Bush administration's approach when it comes to environmental research. Last week, Assistant Interior Secretary Craig Manson stuck to the pattern by dismissing a long-standing panel of Missouri River scientists whose research had ruffled the feathers of business interests. In their stead, he's calling up a so-called SWAT team of researchers that will do a quick assessment of river ecology and presumably produce findings much more to industry's liking. The same sort of string-pulling was behind the recent resignation of a U.S. EPA scientist in Florida whose findings were jettisoned in favor of research showing that wetlands can produce more pollution than they filter. Muckraker dishes the dirt on the Bush administration's latest anti-enviro shenanigans -- only on the Grist Magazine website.


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