Wednesday, December 13, 2006
US now censoring scientific research.
The Bush administration is clamping down on scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey, the latest agency subjected to controls on research that might go against official policy.
Federal criminal investigators are looking into allegations that USGS employees falsified documents between 1998 and 2000 on the the movement of water through the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada. The USGS had validated the Energy Department's conclusions that water seepage was relatively slow, so radiation would be less likely to escape.
At the Environmental Protection Agency, scientists and advocacy groups alike are worried about closing libraries that contain tens of thousands of agency documents and research studies. "It now appears that EPA officials are dismantling what it likely one of our country's comprehensive and accessible collections of environmental materials," four Democrats who are in line to head House committees wrote EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson two weeks ago.
Bush administration tried to censor government scientists researching global warming at NASA and the Commerce Department, according to New York Times.
IMO: This is probably to try to cover up global warming and various foul political practices. It won't work in the long term as people are bound to find out but it the short term will do much damage. But in the US, no doubt they will go on trying the insane cover up.
Federal criminal investigators are looking into allegations that USGS employees falsified documents between 1998 and 2000 on the the movement of water through the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada. The USGS had validated the Energy Department's conclusions that water seepage was relatively slow, so radiation would be less likely to escape.
At the Environmental Protection Agency, scientists and advocacy groups alike are worried about closing libraries that contain tens of thousands of agency documents and research studies. "It now appears that EPA officials are dismantling what it likely one of our country's comprehensive and accessible collections of environmental materials," four Democrats who are in line to head House committees wrote EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson two weeks ago.
Bush administration tried to censor government scientists researching global warming at NASA and the Commerce Department, according to New York Times.
IMO: This is probably to try to cover up global warming and various foul political practices. It won't work in the long term as people are bound to find out but it the short term will do much damage. But in the US, no doubt they will go on trying the insane cover up.
# posted by uv : 10:22 PM
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