Abstract
administration of President George W. Bush, the federal government has been providing handsome and steadily increasing dollar support for research and development. In constant 2005 dollars, the federal budget for research and development (RD Transcript of State of the Union Speech, 2006). Yet the news is not all good, especially in public policymaking for areas related to science and technology. Defense has commanded the preponderant proportion of the increase in the federal R&D budget since 2000 (AASS, 2006). The Bush administration persistently censors, distorts, or manipulates policy-relevant scientific information, ignoring or rejecting the advice of authoritative experts in sensitive areas such as global warming and human stem-cell research. It has reportedly subjected potential scientific advisers to political litmus tests, quashing nominations to advisory committees on partisan grounds (Branscomb, 2004: 54). And the president himself has granted intellectual legitimacy
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