Marburger Refutes Claims That Bush Administration Misuses Science

Policy trumps science in the Bush administration.

Not long ago, a group of more than 60 top United States scientists, including more than 20 past Nobel laureates and past scientific advisors to Republican administrations, accused the Bush administration of manipulating and censoring science for political purposes.1 Included among those involved were David Baltimore, Paul Ehrlich, Leon Lederman, E.O. Wilson and Harold Varmus. The charges are qu...

A Science and Technology Policy Focus for the Bush Administration

1 With the administration of George W. Bush commencing under especially difficult political circumstances, careful consideration of science and technology (S&T) policy could well be relegated to the “later” category for months or even years to come. Science advocates may interpret early signs of neglect as a call to lobby Congress for a proposition that already has significant bipartisan suppor...

Managing WWW in public administration: Uses and misuses☆

The Internet has emerged as one of the most prevalent forms of communication media in and among public organizations. The construction and management of the World Wide Web (Web) sites are becoming essential elements of modern public administration. This study is intended to provide an in-depth evaluation on the Web sites of Taiwan’s central government based on the Web performance indicators pro...

Bush Administration Tax Policy: Distributional Effects

The epidemiology of AIDS in Haiti refutes the claims of Gilbert et al.

In 1982, scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) incorrectly inferred that Haitians were at increased risk for acquiring HIV (1), a generalization that resulted in unprecedented national stigmatization. The association was later dropped, but Haiti’s economy never recovered. Gilbert et al. (2) again link HIV’s origins and Haiti, stating that ‘‘subtype B likely moved fr...