BUSH'S BIZARRE SCIENCE by CHRIS CLARKE
On multiple fronts,
from reproductive health to climate change to wildlife biology
to air and water pollution, the Bush administration is treating
science as its enemy, to be overruled and overwhelmed. The result:
a blithe discounting of mounting threats to human health and
the global environment.
The Bush team's opposition
to science comes out of the desire to promote the interests of
the administration's core constituencies: the far right -- especially
fundamentalist Christians -- and the wide range of corporations
that profit from the extraction of natural resources, from real
estate developers to energy and mining concerns. The flouting
of science manifests itself in a number of ways, from stacking
of advisory panels to suppression of reports to harassment and
suspension of employees.
