February 18, 2004

Bush Manipulates Science.

What about the economy? According to an article in today's New York Times, "The Bush administration has deliberately and systematically distorted scientific fact in the service of policy goals". While many people intuitively knew this already, it is nice to have the weight of 20 Nobel Laureates behind an actual judgment. Not that we need such a judgment on the economy, but I wonder if there are any economist collectives out there taking a similar approach (aside from obviously controversial folks like Paul Krugman).

The actual 37-page report is online at the web site for the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Posted by Palabris at February 18, 2004 07:44 PM
Comments

There's a nice summary of some of the major points of the report (along with commentary) on Kevin Drum's blog here

Posted by: Palabris at February 19, 2004 05:13 PM