Systematic Interference with Science at Interior Department Exposed

Recently obtained documents demonstrate that Deputy Assistant Secretary Julie MacDonald and other high-ranking political appointees within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) at the Department of the Interior have systematically distorted, manipulated, and misused the scientific process prescribed by the Endangered Species Act. In several notable cases, this interference resulted in changing a "positive" finding--in favor of protecting species under ... Full Story »

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by andrew lenz - Oct. 1, 2008

This is more of a report than a news article. Yet, the thoroughness of the Union of Concerned Scientists lends credibility to this disturbing trend of ideology over truth so apparent from this administration. Links allow the reader to read the email manipulations directly.

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