<Scary. "The Bush team is going to great lengths to vet members of scientific panels. Credentials, not ideology, should be the focus, critics say."

"I don't think any administration has penetrated so deeply into the advisory committee structure as this one, and I think it matters," said Donald Kennedy, past president of Stanford University and editor of Science, the premier U.S. scientific journal. "If you start picking people by their ideology instead of their scientific credentials, you are inevitably reducing the quality of the advisory group."

Sort of like Stalin, isn't it? Lysenko - politics, then science. Mao did the same thing in the Great Leap Forward.

Arf (and we in the US laughed at 'em. What goes around, comes around, I guess)