Back to politics: the Bush administration wishes to replace this time-tested, widely respected process of evaluating scientific research and proposals for funding of research, with a process that places control in the hands, not of experts in the field in which the research is pursued, but of the White House and the OMB...
The administration says that policy should be based on scientific truths so well-established as to be beyond question. But there is no scientific truth beyond question; that is the very nature of science. This is not about basing policy on better science; this is about interfering with the decision of what constitutes good science... to the financial advantage of various industries that contribute to Bush's campaign, and to the political advantage of the Bush administration as they throw a bone to their religious "conservative" (read: radical fundamentalist) supporters.
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