This archive has a sampling of the media coverage of political interference in science since UCS released its first scientific integrity report in 2004. The coverage is organized into issues; articles that address the misuse of science in general, or were not easily categorized, are represented in "Other Scientific Integrity News."

Examine articles on specific issues:
Scientific Review at USGS
EPA Library Closures
UCS Survey of FDA Scientists
Science and the Endangered Species Act (ESA)
Censorship of NASA Climate Scientist James Hansen
EPA's Rule on Particulate Matter (PM)
Global Warming/Climate Change Science
Toxic Mercury Pollution Control Standards
Plan B Emergency Contraception and the FDA
Susan Wood Resigns from the FDA
The Florida Panther and Endangered Species
Forest Service Whistleblower Fired
UCS Survey of USFWS Scientists
NOAA Fisheries Scientists Survey
BLM Cattle Decision
AAAS 2005 Annual Meeting Discussion Coverage
Other Scientific Integrity News

Or read the original coverage of the scientists' statement and UCS report on the abuse of science by the Bush administration.

Global Warming/Climate Change Science (2005)

Original Article: "Bush Aide Softened Greenhouse Gas Links to Global Warming" (New York Times)*

Editorials responding to the article:

• "A (White) House Party for Lobbyists" (New York Times)*
• "Climate Change: Spinning Global Science" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)*
• "Spinning Science" (Austin American-Statesman - TX)*
• "Cooking the Reports on Global Warming" (Roanoke Times, VA)*
• "More Blurring of Line Between Fact, Politics" (The Republican - MA)
• "Low-Ball Warming: There should be a special circle in hell for people who mess with scientific data" (The American Prospect) 

Articles addressing this issue appeared in the following publications:

• New York Times
• USA Today
• Boston Globe
• San Francisco Chronicle
• National Public Radio
• Brandenton Herald (FL)
• Long Island Press

In addition, there have been several press reports about Republican in-fighting on political interference in climate change science.  In response to an inquiry by Rep. Barton (R-TX) investigating climate scientists, Rep. Boehlert (R-NY) rebuked the inquiry and political interference in science.  The story was covered on July 18th by:

• USA Today: "Global Warming has the House hot under the collar"
• New York Times: "Two GOP Lawmakers Spar Over Climate Study" *
• Washington Times: "Congressmen clash over climate study"
• Washington Post: "GOP Chairmen Face Off on Global Warming"

The Washington Post article also appeared in:

• San Francisco Chronicle
• Seattle Times
• Boston Globe
• Concord Monitor (NH)

 Toxic Mercury Pollution Control Standards (2005)

• September 22: "Federal study finds Lake Michigan Pollution comes from Smokestacks" (Greenwire)
• September 9: "Some in Senate Seek to Change Mercury Rule" (New York Times)*
• March 22: "New EPA Mercury Rule Omits Conflicting Data" (The Washington Post)*
• March 23: "Editorial: Squashed science" (Sacramento Bee)
• March 21: "Stephen Johnson's Main Task" (New York Times)* 
• March 8: "EPA Distorts Mercury Analysis, GAO Says" (The Washington Post)*
• February 7: "On Mercury Issue, EPA a Sellout" (Atlantic Journal Constitution)
• February 4: "EPA Inspector Finds Mercury Proposal Tainted" (Washington Post)*
• November 7: "EPA Director Hangs Back on Ordering Mercury Studies" (The LA Times)*

Susan Wood Resigns from the FDA (2005)

• Susan Wood Interview (Diane Rehm Show)
• The Birmingham News (AL)
• San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
• San Mateo Daily Journal (CA)
• San Luis Obispo Tribune (CA)
• San Diego Union Tribune (CA)
• The Monterey Herald (CA)
• The World Peace Herald (DC)
• The Miami Herald (FL)
• The Macon Telegraph (GA)
• Fort Wayne Journal Gazette (IN)
• The Indianapolis Star (IN)
• The Lexington Herald Leader (KY)
• The Sun Herald (MI)
• Duluth News Tribune (MN)
• The Pioneer Press (MN)
• Kansas City Star (MO)
• The St. Louis Obispo Tribune (MO)
• The Billings Gazette (MT)
• Winston-Salem Journal (NC)
• The Charlotte Observer (NC)
• The Grand Forks Herald (ND)
• The North Jersey (NJ)
• Albuquerque Tribune (NM)
• The New York Times (NY)*
• The News Standard (NY)
• The New York Sun (NY)
• Daily News Central (NV)
• Akron Beacon Journal (OH)
• Toledo Blade (OH)
• The Oxford Press (OH)
• The Norman Transcript (OK)
• The Register-Guard (OR)*
• The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA)
• Centre Daily Times (PA)
• The Wilkes Barre Times Leader (PA)
• Myrtle Beach Sun News (SC)
• Luftkin Daily News (TX)
• The Fort Worth Star Telegram (TX)
• The Roanoke Times (VA)
• The Barre Montpellier Times Argus (VA)
• The Seattle Times (WA)
• The Seattle Post Intelligencer (WA)
• The News Tribune (WA)
• The Capital Times (WI)
• USA Today

Plan B Emergency Contraception and the FDA (2005)

• November 16: "Plan B Aborted from the Start" (The Chicago Sun Times)*
• November 1: "Helping Teenagers Make Choices: Error of Omission" (San Franciscan Chronicle)
• September 22: "FDA is the next frontier" (The Cincinnati Post)
• June 15: "FDA Nomination is Sent to Floor" (The Washington Post)
• May 12: "Memo May Have Swayed Plan B Ruling" (The Washington Post)
• April 8: "Family Planning: Pushing hard for Plan B" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
• April 7: "Contraception Debate Delays Nominaton of FDA Chief" (The Washington Post)*
• December 16: "Strong majority of FDA scientists feel agency does poor job of monitoring drugs on market" (The Union Tribune)
• December 16: "Many FDA Scientists Had Drug Concerns, 2002 Survey Shows" (The Washington Post)

The Florida Panther and Endangered Species (2005)

• June 28: "Lawsuit seeks to defend habitat" (The News-Press, FL)
• May 27: "Government Shirked its Duty to Wild Fish, A Judge Rules" (The New York Times)*
• May 24: "New Rule on Endangered Species in the Southwest" (The New York Times)*
• March 10: "Business over Biology" (Tucson Weekly)
• March 8: "Panther Advocate Fights to Get Job Back" (The Washington Post)*

Forest Service Whistleblower Fired (2005)

• October 7: Arizona Daily Sun 
• October 7: New Mexican
• October 7: Casper Star Tribune
• October 7: Jackson Hole Star Tribune
• October 6: Billings Gazette

USFWS Scientist Survey (2005)
Several newspapers reported on the survey of USFWS scientists released by UCS on February 9, including:

• USA Today: "Survey: Science, Politics at Odds"
• San Francisco Chronicle: "Wildlife Scientists Feeling Heat"*
• Atlanta Journal Constitution: "Mix of Politics, Science Decried"*
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "Scientists Say They've Been Told to Withhold Species Findings"
• Casper Star-Tribune (WY): "Survey: Scientists Told to Alter Findings"                              
• Grist Magazine: "Why do Fish & Wildlife Scientists Hate America?"

NOAA Fisheries Scientists Survey (2005)
The UCS survey of NOAA scientists released on June 26, was reported in the Associated Press ("NOAA Scientists Say Reports Altered") and picked up by dozens of newspapers including:

• Miami Herald 
• Billings Gazette (MT)
• Kansas City Star
• Macon Telegraph (GA)
• Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (GA)      
• The Wichita Eagle 
• Monterey County Herald
• Bradenton Herald (FL)
• Pioneer Press (MN)
• Myrtle Beach Sun News (SC)
• Fort Worth Star Telegram (TX)
• Duluth News Tribune (MN)
• San Luis Obispo Tribune (CA)
• Charlotte Observer
• Grand Forks Herald (ND)
• Biloxi Sun Herald (MS)
• Centre Daily Times (PA)
• Phillyburbs.com (PA)
• Kentucky.com
• RedOrbit.com (TX)
• The New Standard

BLM Cattle Decision (2005)

• June 26: "Faked Grazing Report Should Outrage Republicans" (Santa Fe New Mexican)*
• June 23: "Battle brewing over BLM's new grazing rules" (Deseret News, UT)
• June 23: "Report on grazing gets the full Bush administration treatment" (Fresno Bee)
• June 22: "Cattle Grazing Study Tramples on the Truth" (LA Times)*
• June 20: "Scientists criticize BLM for altering land study conclusions" (Greenwire)
• June 17: "New BLM Grazing Rules Released" (Albuquerque Journal)*

AAAS Annual Meeting Discussion (2005)
A report on the discussion of political interference in science at the annual meeting of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science in February 2005 appeared in the following publications:

• ABC News
• Arizona Daily Sun
• Barre Montpelier Times Argus (VT)
• Coos Bay World (OR)*
• Corvallis Gazette Times (OR)
• The Daily Herald (UT)
• MSNBC
• Nashua Telegraph (NH)*
• North County Times (CA)
• Oak Ridger (TN)*
• San Diego Union Tribune
• San Francisco Chronicle
• USA Today

Other Scientific Integrity News
Some of the better issue-specific or general scientific integrity stories since 2004:

2007

• May 29: "Fla. customs workers report falsifying data" (USA Today)
• May 29: "U.S. review also shows Glaxo drug risk" (Reuters)
• May 27: "Scientists criticize EPA chemical screening program" (Dallas Morning News)
• May 24: "Be Kind to Our Whistle-Blower Friends" (New York Times Editorial) *
• May 22: "Smithsonian Accused of Altering Exhibit" (The Washington Post)
• May 7: "Just Say No—To Bad Science" (Newsweek)
• May 6: "Prepare for new smoke screens on global warming" (Sacramento Bee)
• April 25: "Science agencies' media policy draws fire" (Government Executive)
• April 25: "OSHA Leaves Worker Safety Largely in Hands of Industry" (The New York Times)*
• April 19: "Why We Can't Wait" (Article by James Hansen in The Nation)
• April 19: "User fees could help, hurt FDA" (UPI)
• April 6: "NOAA tries to clear the air on censorship" (Providence Journal)*
• April 5: "Judge strikes down forest plan" (Casper Star-Tribune)
• April 4: "NIH sidelines contractor in conflict inquiry" (Los Angeles Times)
• April 3: "Federal judge: Administration suppressed scientists’ views on forest plan" (Salem Statesman-Journal)
• March 28: "How Many Scientists?" (Column by Thomas Friedman in NY Times)*
• March 27: "Report Charges Broad White House Efforts to Stifle Climate Research" (ABC News)
• March 24: "CDC rebuffs U.S. senator: Denial of briefing brings blistering reply" (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
• March 23: "House OKs Whistleblower Bill" (Science)*
• March 22: "F.D.A. Rule Limits Role of Advisers Tied to Industry" (New York Times)
• March 22: "FDA Chief Vows to Defend Whistle-Blowers" (San Francisco Chronicle)
• March 16: "Lead players in censorship claims to appear in House hearing" (Environment and Energy Daily)
• March 15: "House Concludes Sunshine Week with Government Contracting Bill" (Editor and Publisher)
• March 14: "Muzzling Discussion" (Chemical and Engineering News)
• March 14: "The Bear Facts" (Editorial in St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
• March 8: "Memos Tell Officials How to Discuss Climate" (New York Times)
• March 4: "FDA Rules Override Warnings About Drug" (Washington Post)
• March 4: "Public health agency linked to chemical industry" (Los Angeles Times)
• March 2: "Bush Taps Business Exec for Safety Board" (Forbes)
• March 1: "The continued concern of scientists" (The Humanist)*

• December 21: "Proposed Standards for Air Quality Criticized" (Washington Post)
• December 9: "New Nobel Laureates Speak Out" (USA Today)
• December 6: "Suit Decries New Secrecy in Government" (San Francisco Chronicle)
• December 4: "Federal Bill Seeks to Shield Bureau from Public Review" (Boston Globe)
• December 3: "Report Accuses EPA of Slanting Analysis" (Washington Post)
• November 30: "Zeroing Out the Messenger: Center for Salmon Survival Eliminated" (Washington Post)
• November 14: "FDA's Rejection of Contraceptive Is Questioned" (New York Times) *
• October 21: "The National Parks Under Siege" (New York Times) *
• October 19: "Interior Biologists Told to Fundraise" (PEER Press Release)
• October 4: "Toxic Waters make New Orleans Unsafe" (Independent News and Media UK)
• September 29: "Bush Administration Polluting the EPA" (San Jose Mercury News)
• September 28: "Species Act co-author searches for Republican to topple Pombo" (Lordi News-Sentinel) *
• September 22: "Investing in Tomorrow" (US News and World Report)
• September 15: "Chris Mooney on the Republican War on Science" (National Public Radio)
• September 14: "The Know Nothings" * (Salon)
• September 13: "Groups File Legal Complaint against Government for Spreading False and Misleading Sex Education" (Advocates for Youth)
• September 13: "Inept Response to Hurricane Katrina" (New York Times)*
• September 12:"F.D.A. had Report of Short Circuit in Heart Devices" (New York Times)*
• June 22: "9/11 Response Hurting Science, ACLU Says" (The Washington Post)
• May 23: "Bush says new EPA chief will put science at the heart of environmental policy" (The Union-Tribune)
• April 5: "An Academic Question"  (The New York Times)*
• March 2: "Proposed Selenium Standard Under Attack" (Environmental Science and Technology)
• February 17: "Politically Reviewed Science" (SF Chronicle)
• February 16: "Request to Edit Title of Talks on Gays, Suicide Stirs Ire" (Washington Post)*
• January 6: "Political Science" (MSNBC News)

2004

• December 22: "Selling the Forest for the Trees: In a gift to timber industry patrons, the Bush administration is thinning national forests and cutting down government scientists who stand in the way" (Salon.com)
• November 30: "U.S. Rules Out Dam Removal to Aid Salmon" (New York Times)*
• November 18: "Scientists Say Advisory Panels Politicized" (National Public Radio)
• November 2004: "An Unprecedented Assault" (Johns Hopkins Magazine)
• October 2: "Rewrite softens report on risks to fish" (Sacremento Bee)*
• October 27: "Expert: Bush Hides Global Warming Evidence" (New York Times)
• September 24: "Science, not politics" (Nature Medicine)*
• September 16: "Double Blind Test: the two main presidential candidates go head-to-head over the Petri dish" (The Economist) 
• September 15: "Manipulation of Science: Bush administration stands accused of distorting science" (Nature Magazine)*
• September 14: "Junking Science" (editorial, New York Times)
• August 14: "Science v. Bush: A Heated Collision" (Associated Press article in USA Today and others)

Original Coverage
The scientists' statement on scientific integrity, released in February 2004 along with a UCS report on the unprecedented level of abuse of science, recieved a significant amount of attention. Many articles were published at that time, including:

• Scientists Accuse White House of Distorting Facts (The New York Times)*
• Scientists Accuse White House of Distortion (National Public Radio)
• Bush's Changes to Advisory Process Draw Scientists' Ire (USA Today)

* Sites requiring some form of registration