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As someone in the scientific community, I am outraged that the censorship of research has ever been allowed to flourish. The common lay person would dismiss claims of government censorship or even outright control of research as conspiracy theory or liberal panic. What must be done to get the point across?

Are the many career scientists who resigned during this regime for having felt their integrity compromised simply invisible? What has happened these last eight years has been a tragedy. Many others and myself seriously doubt if government funded science will ever again have integrity enough to function.

Most unfortunately, and, likely what will spell our doom, is that the American people as a whole are drowning in empty idealism and patriotism, and as a result, don’t have the balls or the will to analyze themselves or their government. They are hand fed sound bites by the media, and this has resulted in an overall distrust and dismissal of anything, including good research, that doesn’t have media endorsement.
Does anyone else see this for the crisis it is?

I decided to write briefly on this topic after spotting the following article from AFP:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080407/sc_afp/usclimateenvironmentnasa_080407051048

I have mixed feelings about this article’s publication in Yahoo News; I feel the majority of Americans have already decided (with a curious but false sense of authority ) that global climate change is unprovable, or that both ‘opinions’ in the scientific community are politically fueled. Our government and its bed partners, the oil and other energy companies, have succeeded in their goal — enough dissent and confusion were spun that the people have dismissed the issue as unproven and far from being decided. Now, the average person is likely to dismiss any statement or research as just another discordant voice in the overall cacophony — if they haven’t already closed their minds completely.