"After 2002, when a National Cancer Institute statement reporting no link between abortion and breast cancer was changed by the Bush administration to say evidence of a link was inconclusive,
"after the administration cut language on global warming from a 2003 report by the Environmental Protection Agency,
after a government scientist was forbidden in 2001 and 2002 from discussing health hazards posed by airborne bacteria emanating from animal waste at large factory farms,
"after 60 scientists -- 20 of them Nobel laureates -- signed a statement in 2004 accusing the White House of manipulating and distorting science for political aims,
"after all that, Team Bush has once again been caught censoring science it dislikes.
"I refer you to this week's testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The committee produced paperwork documenting many dozens of instances in which the former chief of staff of the White House Council on Environmental Quality edited scientific reports on global warming. He cut definitive statements and replaced them with doubtful ones in order to portray climate change as something less than the settled science most experts consider it to be.
"… etc. … etc. … etc. … etc. … etc."
It is a paler version of the blatant mind control typical of fascist regimnes???
It IS the blatant mind control typical of fascist regimes