[AAACE-NLA] "science under siege"

[Anita Landoll]

Someone should make sure Ted Kennedy and John Kerry
have this info. They might comment on it on their
email list.   Anita  www.learntoreadnow.com

--- Daphne Greenberg <epedgg at panther.gsu.edu> wrote:

> These two postings are taken from the National
> Reading Conference listserv. 
> I thought that some of you may be interested.
> 
> 'SCIENCE UNDER SIEGE'
> 
> ACLU issues report attacking Bush administration's
> "assault on academic 
> freedom and scientific inquiry."
> 
> http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/06/22/aclu
> 
>
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> 
> The following statement was approved for publication
> by the Association's 
> Committee on Government Relations on June 8, 2005,
> to express the
> 
> committee's concern over the increased
> politicization of science policy 
> making in recent years. Comments are welcome and
> should be addressed to
> 
> the<mailto:govtrelations at aaup.org> AAUP's Washington
> office. The Committee 
> on Government Relations is alarmed at the increasing
> 
> disregard for science, scientists, and scientific
> method in the development 
> of national policy on a wide range of topics. These
> include policies on
> 
> HIV/AIDS, global warming, human sexuality,
> environmental protection, energy, 
> natural resource utilization, space exploration, and
> general
> 
> science education. Lack of adequate funding of many
> federal science 
> agencies, such as the National Science Foundation,
> the Environmental
> 
> Protection Agency, and the Department of Energy as
> well as the defunding of 
> many long-standing postdoctoral grants and
> fellowships over the last four
> 
> years is having a chilling effect on the nation's
> research and scholarship 
> in the physical sciences and many of the social
> sciences that gather and
> 
> analyze data over periods of time to predict trends,
> identify issues, and 
> address problems by assessment and accountability. A
> persistent
> 
> substitution of politically and ideologically driven
> criteria for scientists 
> and scientific credentials in the selection and
> organization of
> 
> boards, panels, and commissions does a disservice to
> the public and the 
> process for informing public policy.
> 
>
http://www.aaup.org/statements/Resolutions/ScienceforFreeSociety.htm
> 
> 
> 
> 
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