Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

[Barry Karr <SkeptInq@AOL.COM>]

Don't Listen to Those Pesky Scientists

Why science adviser John Marburger's defense of the Bush administration's science policies fails.

Chris Mooney; April 8, 2004

Well, John Marburger has gone and done it. In an action that will probably come to define his tenure as presidential science adviser, he's released a detailed report attempting to debunk highly publicized charges by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) that Bush administration has systematically abused science. Marburger's report is labeled a "Response to Congress," so I doubt we've heard the last of this matter.

As I've argued previously, Marburger had little chance of succeeding in this attempted rebuttal. And sure enough, now that we can read the document that his office has produced, it clearly leaves a great deal to be desired.

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