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To: Lane3 who wrote (10732)	2/3/2006 10:58:52 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541877

My concern there is that as the Bush administration has politicized funding for scientific research, they may try to dictate results. I don't worry about that. I spent a lot of years at the EPA. EPA has a lot of professionals, really. There are limits to the influence of an administration on science, particularly an administration that leans in Bush's direction. I didn't worry at first but I've watched the growing conflicts at the FDA with more than a little alarm. That goes to science. And the latest flap over NSA scientists in the NYTimes over the past weekend. I read bits and pieces of an interesting book on the way the Bush administration approached scientific work as basically political. Can't remember the title just now. But it convinced me it's more widespread that what appears, sporadically, in the press.