Scientific Integrity in Policymaking - "Suppression and Distortion of Research Findings"

"Suppression and Distortion of Research Findings"

A central thesis of the report, according to the Executive Summary (on page 2 of the text), was that the Bush administration had behaved in ways considered to be consistent with the following three situations.

  1. Epidemic altering and concealing of scientific information by senior officials in various federal agencies
  2. Active censorship of scientific information that the administration considered threatening to its own philosophies
  3. Restriction of the ability of government-supported scientists to freely communicate scientific ideas related to "sensitive" issues

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