  A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable. urlLink -Carl Sagan ...But Robert Paine, an ecologist at University of Washington who chaired an advisory panel on endangered salmon and trout, said his team was warned by the government to remove facts that undermined policy.
"We were told to strip out specific scientific recommendations or see our report end up in a drawer," Paine said. urlLink -CNN urlLink House.gov - Investigating the State of Science Under the Bush Administration urlLink CNN.com - Bush Science policy swayed by politics urlLink Scientific American - Bush-League Lysenkoism urlLink Union of Concerned Scientists They're not liberal lackeys or tree-hugging hippies.
They're reputable scientists, and their business is the truth. The Bush Administration seems to regard science as a blunt tool, for pushing its religious and corporate agenda. Issue after issue of Bush policy clearly demonstrates the Administration's lack of regard for the scientific process and the truth. urlLink Healthcare Disparities , urlLink Yellowstone National Park , urlLink Arctic Drilling , urlLink Oil and Gas Practices , urlLink Global Warming , urlLink Abstinence-Only Education , urlLink Breast Cancer Risks , urlLink Condom Effectiveness , urlLink HIV/AIDS Policy and Research , urlLink Prescription Drug Advertising , urlLink Stem Cell Research , urlLink Missile Defense , urlLink Education Policy , to name a few.
( urlLink house.gov ) I don't understand how anyone can deny that the truth has just been tossed aside in all of these cases, in favor of persuing "What God (Jerry Falwell) Sez" or larger corporate profits. Do people believe that the scientific community is lying, perhaps? Or that they've all been infected with homosexual liberal hysteria? The fact that the Bush administration can maintain 50% approval rating in the face of such evidence (with more mounting, not even to mention certain OTHER instances of *ahem* "truth massaging") is frightening, to say the least.
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to the American public. It is a dimension as vast as space, but as hollow as a coconut. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between urlLink science and urlLink superstition , and it lies between the pit of fundamentalist christianity, and the summit of corporate campaign contributions. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call ... urlLink The Neoconservative Zone . info.link: urlLink http://www.bushspeech.org/ how i died today: urlLink e-charybdis [Listening to: Hold On, I'm Coming - urlLink Sam And Dave (02:39)] 
