So it appears the Bush Administration has been having fun lately, what with the whole illegal-wiretapping-thing and the stay-the-course-thing and the threatening-Iran-with-war-thing. And now it seems we can add one more to the Bush legacy:
Censorship.
More specifically, censorship of scientific information and reports with conclusions that appear to have been deemed "unproven" - aka. uncomfortable. Like global warming's negative effects on human health, the state of our environment, and endangered species, among other things.
This is preposterous and I wonder how they have been getting away with it for so long. It appears Cheney (or at least his office) has been instrumental in all this, but really it comes down to a systemic problem. How have we allowed censorship - real live censorship - of one of the last fields that is supposed to be immune from politics?
Science is based on facts, based on data and analysis, and the scientific method. At least that's what we teach in schools. Call me crazy, call me innocent but I believed that nothing could be called science except conclusions drawn on experiments and rigorous testing and review.
Censorship is absurd and unacceptable. It should not happen in a free and open society. It does not happen in the America I choose to believe in.
Thanks to Erik for bringing this to my attention.
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