Abstract
DECLINING FEDERAL FUNDING, political interference with science, and government inaction on the issue of global climate change were areas where the Bush Administration was battered by science policy leaders at last month's Forum on Science & Technology Policy presented by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). This annual conference in Washington, D.C., draws hundreds of policy wonks seeking the latest word on the directions that Congress and the White House may be taking science. But instead of the mostly polite discussions that regularly mark this event, a number of the forum's speakers showed rising discontent with the direction the Administration is heading. The federal budget was a recurrent theme at the meeting, because government spending is a principal means for shaping science and technology policy. The budget proposal for fiscal-year (FY) 2007 sends a mixed message about government research support, and President George W. Bush's own science ...
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