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Posted Sun Jul 11 2010: from Los Angeles Times:
Scientists expected Obama administration to be friendlier http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1278861853
When he ran for president, Barack Obama attacked the George W. Bush administration for putting political concerns ahead of science on such issues as climate change and public health. And during his first weeks in the White House, President Obama ordered his advisors to develop rules to "guarantee scientific integrity throughout the executive branch." Many government scientists hailed the president's pronouncement. But a year and a half later, no such rules have been issued. Now scientists charge that the Obama administration is not doing enough to reverse a culture that they contend allowed officials to interfere with their work and limit their ability to speak out.
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Perhaps it's the Office of the Presidency that is the problem.
Our problems are so enormous that they can not be solved by a top-down effort. Only a bottom-up, grass roots activism will change our broken system.

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