Associated Statement "Restoring Scientific Integrity in Policymaking"
At the time of issue of this report, the UCS released a statement supporting the criticisms detailed in the above report. This statement was originally signed by the 62 prominent scientists listed below. Since that time it has gathered support from more than 12,000 scientists.
Signatories of the original statement:
- Philip W. Anderson
- David Baltimore
- Paul Berg
- Rosina Bierbaum
- Nicolaas Bloembergen
- Lewis M. Branscomb
- Eric Chivian
- Joel E. Cohen
- James Cronin
- Margaret Davis
- Paul M. Doty
- Paul Ehrlich
- Thomas Eisner
- Christopher Field
- Gerald D. Fischbach
- Val L. Fitch
- Jerry Franklin
- Jerome Friedman
- Richard L. Garwin
- John H. Gibbons
- Marvin L. Goldberger
- Lynn R. Goldman
- Kurt Gottfried
- David Grimes
- Roger Guillemin
- John P. Holdren
- Eric R. Kandel
- Anne Kapuscinski
- Walter Kohn
- Lawrence Krauss
- Neal F. Lane
- Leon M. Lederman
- William Lipscomb
- Jane Lubchenco
- Michael MacCracken
- James J. McCarthy
- Jerry M. Melillo
- Matthew S. Meselson
- David Michaels
- Mario Molina
- Michael Oppenheimer
- Gordon Orians
- W.K.H. Panofsky
- Stuart Pimm
- Ron Pulliam
- Norman F. Ramsey
- Anthony Robbins
- Allan Rosenfield
- F. Sherwood Rowland
- Edwin E. Salpeter
- William Schlesinger
- J. Robert Schrieffer
- Richard Smalley
- Felicia Stewart
- Kevin Trenberth
- Harold E. Varmus
- Steven Weinberg
- E.O. Wilson
- Edward Witten
- George Woodwell
- Donald Wuebbles
- Herbert F. York
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