From: Andrew Johnson
Date: 2006-01-03 23:56:52
MP3 here:BBC Radio 4 – The Science Blacklist – 03 Jan 2006.mp3 (8.5 MB) (www.checktheevidence…)The Science Blacklist is on BBC Radio Four at 20:00 on Tuesday 3rd January.Political interference in science is causing widespread alarm across the United States. Many government scientists have resigned in protest, claiming that industrial and ideological powers are infiltrating their work to an unprecedented level. BBC Washington Correspondent Justin Webb investigates the growing number of US science scandals, from editing climate change research to repressing the sale of contraceptives.