[Marxism] Natural Scientists protest misuse of science

["Jurriaan Bendien" <bendien@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

February 18, 2004: Washington, D.C.-Today, more than 60 leading
scientists-including Nobel laureates, leading medical experts, former
federal agency directors and university chairs and presidents-issued a
statement calling for regulatory and legislative action to restore
scientific integrity to federal policymaking. According to the scientists,
the Bush administration has, among other abuses, suppressed and distorted
scientific analysis from federal agencies, and taken actions that have
undermined the quality of scientific advisory panels.
"Across a broad range of issues, the administration has undermined the
quality of the scientific advisory system and the morale of the government's
outstanding scientific personnel," said Dr. Kurt Gottfried, emeritus
professor of physics at Cornell University and Chairman of the Union of
Concerned Scientists. "Whether the issue is lead paint, clean air or climate
change, this behavior has serious consequences for all Americans."

"Science, to quote President Bush's father, the former president, relies on
freedom of inquiry and objectivity," said Russell Train, head of the
Environmental Protection Agency under Nixon and Ford, who joined the
scientists in calling for action. "But this administration has obstructed
that freedom and distorted that objectivity in ways that were unheard of in
any previous administration." (...)

The statement demands that the Bush administration's "distortion of
scientific knowledge for partisan political ends must cease" and calls for
Congressional oversight hearings, guaranteed public access to government
scientific studies and other measures to prevent such abuses in the future.
The statement further calls on the scientific, engineering and medical
communities to work together to reestablish scientific integrity in the
policymaking process.

Below is a list of prominent signatories of the UCS RSI statement.  There
are currently 19 National Medal of Science signatories, 20 Nobel Laureates,
and 3 Crafoord Prize winners.

Source: http://www2.ucsusa.org/global_environment/rsi/rsirelease.html
For more info on the campaign in defence of science, see:
http://www2.ucsusa.org/global_environment/rsi/report.html

Among the signatories are:

National Medal of Science *
Nobel Laureate ?
Crafoord Prize #
Philip W. Anderson * ?
Condensed Matter Physics, Superconductivity, Princeton University

David Baltimore * ?
Molecular Biology & Medicine, President, California Institute of Technology

Paul Berg * ?
Molecular Biology & Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine

Rosina Bierbaum
Dean, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan

Nicolaas Bloembergen * ?
Nonlinear Optics, University of Arizona

Lewis M. Branscomb
Former Director, National Bureau of Standards, Chief Scientist IBM; Harvard
University

Eric Chivian ?
Environmental Health, Harvard Medical School

Joel E. Cohen
Human Population Studies, Rockefeller University

James Cronin * ?
Experimental Particle Physics, University of Chicago

Margaret Davis
Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota

Paul M. Doty
Biochemistry, National Security Policy, Harvard University

Paul Ehrlich #
Population Biology, Stanford University

Thomas Eisner *
Chemical Ecology, Entomology, Cornell University

Christopher Field
Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution of Washington

Gerald D. Fischbach
Neurobiology, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Columbia University Former
Director, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Val L. Fitch * ?
Experimental Particle Physics, Princeton University

Jerry Franklin
Ecosystem Analysis, University of Washington

Jerome Friedman ?
Experimental Particle Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Richard L. Garwin *
Pure & Applied Physics, Military Technologies, National Security Policy; IBM

John H. Gibbons
Former Science Advisor to the President

Marvin L. Goldberger
Theoretical Physics, Former President of California Institute of Technology

Lynn R. Goldman
Environmental Health, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Kurt Gottfried
Theoretical Nuclear & Particle Physics, Cornell University

David Grimes
Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine

Roger Guillemin * ?
Neurology & Endocrinology, Salk Institute

John P. Holdren
Environmental Science, National Security Policy, Harvard University

Anne Kapuscinski
Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, University of Minnesota

Eric R. Kandel * ?
Neurobiology & Behavior, Columbia University

Walter Kohn * ?
Atomic & Solid State Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara

Lawrence Krauss
Astrophysics, Case Western Reserve University

Neal F. Lane
Former Science Advisor to the President, Former Director, National Science
Foundation; Physics & Astronomy, Rice University

Leon M. Lederman * ?
Experimental Particle Physics, Director Emeritus, Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory; Former President, American Association for the Advancement of
Science

William Lipscomb ?
Chemistry, Harvard University

Jane Lubchenco
Marine Biology, Zoology, Oregon State University; Former President, American
Association for the Advancement of Science

Michael C. MacCracken
Former Executive Director of the Office of the U.S. Global Change Research
Program

James J. McCarthy
Biological Oceanography, Harvard University

Jerry M. Melillo
Former Associate Director for Environment, Office of Science and Technology
Policy; Co-director, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory

Matthew S. Meselson
Molecular and Cell Biology, Harvard University

David Michaels
Former Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety and Health, DOE
Occupational and Environmental Health and Epidemiology, George Washington

Mario Molina ?
Atmospheric Chemistry & Climate Science, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology

Michael Oppenheimer
Geosciences, Princeton University

Gordon Orians
Zoology, University of Washington

W.K.H. Panofsky *
Experimental Particle Physics, National Security Policy, Stanford University

Stuart Pimm
Conservation Ecology, Duke University

Ron Pulliam
Ecology, University of Georgia

Norman F. Ramsey * ?
Atomic, Molecular & Nuclear Physics

Anthony Robbins
Tufts University School of Medicine;
Former Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

Allan Rosenfield
Dean, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

F. Sherwood Rowland ?
Atmospheric Chemistry & Climate Science, University of California, Irvine;
Former President, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Edwin E. Salpeter #
Astrophysics, Cornell University

William Schlesinger
Dean, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University

J. Robert Schrieffer * ?
Superconductivity, Chief Scientist, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory,
Florida State University

Richard Smalley ?
Director, Nanotechnology Laboratory, Rice University

Felicia Stewart
Reproductive Health Research and Policy, University of California, San
Francisco

Kevin Trenberth
Head, Climate Analysis Section, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Harold E. Varmus * ?
Behavior of Retroviruses; Former Director, National Institutes of Health;
CEO Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Steven Weinberg * ?
Theoretical Particle Physics & Cosmology, University of Texas, Austin

E.O. Wilson * #
Entomology, Harvard University

Edward Witten *
Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Institute for Advanced Study

George M. Woodwell
President and Director, Woods Hole Research Center

Donald Wuebbles
Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois

Herbert F. York
First Director, Livermore National Laboratory







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