The Politics of Science, Washington Post, 2906

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The Politics of Science, Washington Post, 2/9/06

• several New York Times articles over the past
  week or so have exposed Mr. Deutsch as one of
  several White House-appointed public affairs
  officers at the agency who tried to prevent
  senior NASA career scientists from speaking and
  writing freely, especially when their views on
  the realities of climate change differed from
  those of the White House.

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• Mr, Deutsch also instructed another NASA
  scientist to add the word theory after every
  written mention of the Big Bang, on the grounds
  that the accepted scientific explanation of the
  origins of the universe is an opinion and that
  NASA should not discount the possibility of
  intelligent design by a creator.

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Bush vs. Science, Washington Post, 2/6/06

• the Union of Concerned Scientists has collected
  the signatures of more than 8,000
  scientistsincluding 49 Nobel laureates, 63
  National Medal of Science recipients and 171
  members of the National Academieswho accuse the
  Administration of an unprecedented level of
  political intrusion into their world.

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Summers remarks on women draw fire, Boston
Globe, 1/17/05

• The president of Harvard University, Lawrence H.
  Summers, sparked an uproar at an academic
  conference Friday when he said that innate
  differences between men and women might be one
  reason fewer women succeed in science and math
  careers. Summers also questioned how much of a
  role discrimination plays in the dearth of female
  professors in science and engineering at elite
  universities.

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• the problem of women in academia is one that
  Summers is confronting in his role as university
  president. The percentage of tenured job offers
  made to women by the university's Faculty of Arts
  and Sciences has dropped dramatically since
  Summers took office, prompting vigorous
  complaints from many of Harvard's senior female
  professors.