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I heard a commentary on this, though I don't remember where. It was on talk-radio I believe. Anyways, the commentary equated this article to another case of political interference with science. In this case, they were referring to the Catholic Church's torture of Galileo Galilei for purporting that we lived in a heliocentric solar system. Since this belief did not agree with the Roman Catholic doctrine of an earth-centered universe, he was ordered to recant his beliefs in order to serve the ruling body.
As history has proven, the Roman Catholic Church <b>was</b> able to change the universe into a geocentric one by forcing Galileo to go along with them (sarcasm). So yeah, I can believe the administration does this. But then again, I'm pretty sure every administration has done it, though probably not quite to the extent of the current adminstration.
Worse than mixing politics and religion is mixing politics and science, in my opinion. When scientific findings don't jibe with the current political atmosphere, we get instances where presidents claim that trees cause more air pollution than automobiles.
What baffles me is the arrogance it takes to alter science to fit a political ideology.
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