A Lot of Hot Air
This week TIME talks about scientists complaining Bush appointees with no scientific background our overruling or stifling their suggestions, recommendations, reports, etc. "Last week, in his State of the Union address, the President pointed to scientific research as the way to 'lead the world in opportunity and innovation for decades to come.' Yet growing numbers of researchers, both in and out of government, say their findings--on pollution, climate change, reproductive health, stem-cell research and other areas in which science often finds itself at odds with religious, ideological or corporate interests--are being discounted, distorted or quashed by Bush Administration appointees."
This story comes in a TIME cover package about the state of scientific research in the United States, titled "Are We Losing Our Edge?". Says the subhead: "The U.S. still leads the world in scientific innovation. But years of declining investment and fresh competition from abroad threaten to end our supremacy."
Meanwhile, on the controversial science front, environmentals are getting growing support from an unlikely source - evangelical Christians - on the subject of global warming. The NY Times reports that 86 evangelicals, including pastor Rick Warren - author of the popular tome "The Purpose-Driven Life" - signed a statement backing an initiative to fight global warming, saying "millions of people could die in this century because of climate change, most of them our poorest global neighbors."
And finally, on the topic of global warming...and referring back to the first graf - a young presidential appointee at NASA "who told public affairs workers to limit reporters' access to a top climate scientist and told a Web designer to add the word 'theory' at every mention of the Big Bang, resigned." The resignation came, the report says, the same day that Texas A&M University confirmed that he did not graduate from there, as his résumé on file at the agency asserted.
The Political Science Test [TIME]
Are We Losing Our Edge [TIME]
Evangelical Leaders Join Global Warming Initiative [NY Times]
A Young Bush Appointee Resigns His Post at NASA [NY Times]
This story comes in a TIME cover package about the state of scientific research in the United States, titled "Are We Losing Our Edge?". Says the subhead: "The U.S. still leads the world in scientific innovation. But years of declining investment and fresh competition from abroad threaten to end our supremacy."
Meanwhile, on the controversial science front, environmentals are getting growing support from an unlikely source - evangelical Christians - on the subject of global warming. The NY Times reports that 86 evangelicals, including pastor Rick Warren - author of the popular tome "The Purpose-Driven Life" - signed a statement backing an initiative to fight global warming, saying "millions of people could die in this century because of climate change, most of them our poorest global neighbors."
And finally, on the topic of global warming...and referring back to the first graf - a young presidential appointee at NASA "who told public affairs workers to limit reporters' access to a top climate scientist and told a Web designer to add the word 'theory' at every mention of the Big Bang, resigned." The resignation came, the report says, the same day that Texas A&M University confirmed that he did not graduate from there, as his résumé on file at the agency asserted.
The Political Science Test [TIME]
Are We Losing Our Edge [TIME]
Evangelical Leaders Join Global Warming Initiative [NY Times]
A Young Bush Appointee Resigns His Post at NASA [NY Times]
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