Since his first months in office, President Bush and his administration have politicized public health and subverted science in favor of an ideological agenda on a range of health issues.  President Bush has used all the powers of his presidency to obstruct scientific research, censor factual medical information, and stack scientific advisory committees with right-wing ideologues.

Medical evidence, not politics, should form the underpinnings of scientific and public-health-related policies.  The Bush administration’s history of censorship, misleading statements, unabashed scientific revisionism, and targeted intrusions into scientific decision-making processes casts doubt on the credibility of American science and compromises our ability to understand, prevent, and treat diseases. 

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