The Anti-Science Administration

According to Ziff Davis Media, "President Bush's science advisor and a prominent Democratic Member of Congress sparred publicly this week about the administration's stance on computer models.

Representative Henry Waxman accused the administration of invoking scientific uncertainty to discredit evidence counter to its policies.

...because of lack of computational power and information, models cannot encompass all the complexities of the real world. Most models of climate change, for example, cannot model individual clouds and so estimate cloud coverage over larger regions. And different assumptions built into the model can dramatically affect the results.

Waxman said this liability has been exploited, particularly in a recent controversy about safe levels of mercury in the environment.

'Scientists were told "keep remodelling until you get the answer we want,"' Waxman said. But he also accused the industry and administration of hiding behind ambiguity when model predictions run counter to policy goals. "

It's been long known this administration ignores scientific and other data that would counter its policies on such issues as global warming, stem-cell reserach, sex education and abortion, etc. However, it looks that this is being done on a much more systematic level than previously thought.

UPDATE: Scientists say Bush admin trying to stifle them.