Politics and science

The Bush Administration is following a long line of presidential administrations that have edited scientific reports from federal agencies to support an alternate agenda.

The issue this particular time is a revision to the EPA's annual Draft Report on the Environment, which is supposed to be a thorough summary of the major environmental issues facing the country as a whole. Apparently, the report originally featured prominently a discussion of the effects of anthropogenic climate change. The Bushies didn't like this, because it contradicts their stated position of "we don't know," so out it came.

Not that I'm all that surprised. It's hardly the first time this has happened, or even the first time it's happened in this administration.