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Louisiana teachers' union concerned about educators' future; Supreme Court hears arguments in Trump immunity case; court issues restraining order against fracking waste-storage facility; landmark NE agreement takes a proactive approach to CO2 pipeline risks.

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Speaker Johnson accuses demonstrating students of getting support from Hamas. TikTok says it'll challenge the ban. And the Supreme Court dives into the gray area between abortion and pregnancy healthcare, and into former President Trump's broad immunity claims.

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The urban-rural death divide is widening for working-age Americans, many home internet connections established for rural students during COVID have been broken, and a new federal rule aims to put the "public" back in public lands.

CA Scientists: Politics is Contaminating Research

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Monday, February 18, 2008   

Los Angeles, CA – Scientific studies have been rewritten, censored, and sometimes entirely fabricated, according to 15,000 scientists from California, and around the country. They say it's time to stop what they call "political interference" that endangers public health.

For example, former Consumer Product Safety Commission employee Robin Ingle claims a political appointee with no scientific background blocked her research on all-terrain vehicle (ATV) safety, a move she believes put the public in danger.

"Many injuries and deaths continued to occur. He had formerly represented the ATV industry."

Ingle has joined scientists, including some Nobel prize winners, in signing a letter detailing how science has been routinely falsified and censored by political appointees over the past four years. While politics and science have traditionally had an uneasy relationship in government, she explains political interference has only recently become severe enough to prompt the scientific community to take action.

"It's kind-of a sad state of affairs. These are not principles that are new to the scientific community."

The letter calls for the next Administration to ensure that federal scientists have the freedom to communicate their findings, publish their work, and "blow the whistle" on cases of misrepresentation or censorship. Critics of the request believe political review of science is an important component of holding researchers accountable.



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