This opinion piece allows a former member of the administration to vent, without examining the validity of his complaints, or whether he even knows about the subject in question. For example, on the stem cell issue that occupies much of the interview, he clearly knows nothing on the subject. Embryonic stem cell research has produced no significant scientific advances, only what is universally considered the biggest scientific fraud of the last 15 years. Non-embryonic stem cells continue to show advances in the clinic as well as in basic science. The administration's position allowing a limited range of Federal funding for embryonic stem cell research has been proven absolutely correct; it is not an area that deserves large amounts of funding when its feasibility is so uncertain, compared to the use of adult stem cells. The interview does not even acknowledge that the U.S. position on such research is much more generous than in several other major scientific countries, such as Germany. The only redeeming aspect of this interview is the acknowledgement that other administrations also put limits on the Surgeon General. The entire discussion seems dedicated to presenting the conventional Democratic position on how this administration is bad for science, one that is totally in oppostion to the facts. Indeed a strong case exists that this administration's record on science policy ranks second only to those of the Truman administration, during which the groundwork was laid for the AEC and NSF and a great expansion of the NIH.