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UCS President Kevin Knobloch is scheduled to appear on the PBS television program NOW to talk about the growing problem of political interference in science this Friday, July 22, 2005.
Kevin is representing the UCS Restoring Scientific Integrity campaign, launched in 2004 to combat an unprecedented level of abuse of federal government science by political appointees. UCS has released two major reports detailing examples of misconduct on issues from toxic mercury pollution to breast cancer to forest management.
The hour-long program is expected to focus on one well-known example of scientific abuse: the Bush administration’s long history of manipulating, suppressing, and distorting the science on global warming. Last month, the New York Times reported that Phil Cooney, a former oil industry lobbyist working for the White House, edited scientific climate change reports to significantly exaggerate uncertainty about the science behind global warming. Two days after the Times article, Cooney resigned and took a job with Exxon-Mobil.
The Restoring Scientific Integrity campaign: To date, more than 6,700 scientists, including 49 Nobel Laureates, have signed a statement decrying the current situation as unprecedented and calling for change. Scientists interested in joining their colleagues in signing the statement should click here. Non-scientist activists who want to demonstrate their support for this campaign should sign the scientific integrity call to action.
UCS recently released two surveys of government scientists at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries division. The surveys showed that political interference in science has become pervasive at both agencies, diminishing the morale of staff scientists and making it difficult for the agencies to fulfill their missions of protecting endangered wildlife and marine life.
Visit the UCS website to learn more about efforts to prevent the abuse of science.