In his State of the Union address President Bush said that “we must trust in the skill of our scientists and engineers.”

To keep America competitive into the future, we must trust in the skill of our scientists and engineers and empower them to pursue the breakthroughs of tomorrow.

But as ThinkProgress has pointed out, the Bush administration has regularly undermined independent scientific research, shaping government science around administration ideology. According to the government’s top global warming researcher, James Hansen, who has previously revealed “the government’s efforts to muzzle him from speaking out about climate change,” the White House Office of Management and Budget censors “all government scientists…to make sure that it’s consistent with the President’s budget.”

Do you know that before a government scientist testifies to Congress his/her testimony is typically reviewed and edited by the White House Office of Management and Budget? When I asked for a justification, I was told that a government scientist’s testimony “needs to be consistent with the President’s budget”.

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