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