Bush-League Lysenkoism.

• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 290, Nº. 5, 2004, págs. 10-10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article discusses the role that the Bush administration has had in the field of science in America. In February his White House received failing marks in a statement signed by 62 leading scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, 19 recipients of the National Medal of Science, and advisers to the Eisenhower and Nixon administrations. The Office of Management and Budget has proposed overhauling peer review for funding of science that bears on environmental and health regulations--in effect, industry scientists would get to approve what research is conducted by the EPA. Less than two weeks after the UCS statement was released, Bush unceremoniously replaced two advocates of human embryonic stem cell research on his advisory Council on Bioethics with individuals more likely to give him a hallelujah chorus of opposition to it. They may brush off this magazine's reproofs the same way, as well as the regular salvos launched by California Representative Henry A. Waxman of the House Government Reform Committee see Insights and maybe even Arizona Senator John McCain's scrutiny for the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.