They Blinded Him With Science

Another of the many issues we're going to hear about in this Election Year is this one: That the Bush Administration has repeatedly ignored the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community when its findings interfered with their political goals. When someone reports something that does not conform to their worldview, that report has to be buried and that someone has to be replaced with someone who can get with the program. Recently, 20 past Nobel prize winners signed off on this report that decries this practice. (That's a PDF file. You'll need to have Adobe installed to read it.) No doubt this charge will link up with the charge that the White House ignored certain facts about Iraq because they were inconvenient, too.