God help me for starting another science debate ...

Politics Interfering with Science
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From a report / survey issued back in February about "1,400 USFWS biologists, ecologists, botanists and other science professionals working in Ecological Services field offices across the country." The survey, from the Union of Concerned Scientists, found:

Nearly half of all respondents whose work is related to endangered species scientific findings (44 percent) reported that they "have been directed, for non-scientific reasons, to refrain from making jeopardy or other findings that are protective of species." One in five agency scientists revealed they have been instructed to compromise their scientific integrity—reporting that they have been "directed to inappropriately exclude or alter technical information from a USFWS scientific document,"
such as a biological opinion;

More than half of all respondents (56 percent) knew of cases where "commercial interests have inappropriately induced the reversal or withdrawal of scientific conclusions or decisions through political intervention;" and

More than two out of three staff scientists (70 percent) and nearly nine out of 10 scientist managers (89 percent) knew of cases "where U.S. Department of Interior political appointees have injected themselves into Ecological Services determinations." A majority of respondents also cited interventions by members of Congress and local officeholders.

Unfortunately, this doesn't really surprise me.

I didn't doubt that this happened, but those percentages are staggering.

Again, I'm not that surprised, sadly. Science and those who are in the field are frequently quashed for political reasons.

Damn liberals are trying to destroy the American way of life.