DS: What will be on the agenda of the I & O subcommittee?

Rep. Miller: The Committee on Science and Technology will be a lot more active under the Democrats, and there will be plenty for the I & O Subcommittee to say grace over.

You certainly can count on our looking at scientific integrity issues under the Bush Administration. There have been lots of reports in the press of manipulating science to support policy, rigging advisory panels, and suppressing research by federal employees or with federal dollars. I've written about that here before, and you interviewed me a year ago about the manipulation of science. In addition to the published reports, the committee staff has been collecting accounts, some confidential, of interference by political appointees. I hope that more folks will come forward now that Democrats are in the majority and we show we're really going to pursue the issue.

This is one small step in the direction of bringing the truth to the front.  It will take more than this to change attitudes but it's at least a counter to some of the disrespect for science that has helped prop up these wrong beliefs.    

by standingup on Wed Jan 24, 2007 at 02:37:10 PM EST