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Article: SCIENCE WARS THE ELECTION IS OVER, BUT THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S BATTLES WITH THE SCIENTIFIC ESTABLISHMENT AREN'T GOING AWAY
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 21, 2004
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THE 2004 ELECTION saw an unprecedented political mobilization of
America's scientific community. Not only did scientists band together
to oppose the reelection of George W. Bush, charging that his
administration had systematically abused and manipulated scientific
information on a variety of issues and let narrow religious concerns
get in the way of potentially life-saving embryonic stem cell
research. Scientists also helped fuel the state of California's end
run around Bush's restrictive stem cell policy, backing a ballot
initiative to invest $3 billion of public funding in the field over
10 years.
In their campaign to unseat Bush, scientists seem to have had
limited electoral impact. In ...