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Hacked e-mails fuel climate change skeptics. Hundreds of private e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change. New York Times. 21 November 2009. [Registration Required]
Fighting on a battlefield the size of a milk label. A new advocacy group closely tied to Monsanto has started a counteroffensive to stop the proliferation of milk that comes from cows that aren’t treated with synthetic bovine growth hormone. New York Times. 9 March 2008. [Registration Required]
Climate skeptics seize on cold spell. Some scientists, opinion writers, political operatives and other people who challenge warnings about dangerous human-caused global warming have jumped on a rash of recent cold spells as a teachable moment. New York Times. 2 March 2008. [Registration Required]
Material shows weakening of climate reports. A House committee released documents showing hundreds of cases where a White House official edited climate reports to play up uncertainty of a human role in global warming or play down evidence of such a role. New York Times. 20 March 2007. [Registration Required]
Protocol is cited in limiting scientists' talks on climate. The director of the Fish and Wildlife Service defended the agency requirement that two employees going to international meetings on the Arctic not discuss climate change. New York Times. 9 March 2007. [Registration Required]
An unwelcome discovery. The scientific process is meant to be self-correcting. But the Eric Poehlman case shows how a committed cheater can elude detection for years by playing on the trust -- and the self-interest -- of his or her junior colleagues. New York Times. 22 October 2006. [Registration Required]
Study condemns FDA's handling of drug safety. A report from the National Academy of Sciences says that the US system for ensuring drug safety needs major changes, and consumers should be wary of newly approved drugs. New York Times. 23 September 2006. [Registration Required]
Swift boating the planet. Al Gore and others who hope to turn global warming into a real political issue are going to have to get tougher, because the other side doesn't play by any known rules. New York Times. Opinion, 29 May 2006. [related stories] [Subscription Required]
Study finds a link of drug makers to psychiatrists. More than half the psychiatrists who took part in developing a widely used diagnostic manual for mental disorders had financial ties to drug companies before or after the manual was published. New York Times. 20 April 2006. [Registration Required]
New NASA policy backs free discussion by scientists. Two months after NASA's top climate scientist complained that political operatives in the agency's press office were trying to censor his views on global warming, NASA issued a new communications policy. New York Times. 31 March 2006. [Registration Required]
Scientists commend NASA's progress on communications. A review of communications policies at NASA, set off by reports that political appointees had tried to muzzle some agency scientists, received a public vote of support yesterday from dozens of scientists and other staff members at the space agency. New York Times. 14 March 2006. [Registration Required]
Call for openness at NASA adds to reports of pressure. Top political appointees in the NASA press office exerted strong pressure during the 2004 presidential campaign to cut the flow of news releases on glaciers, climate, pollution and other earth sciences. New York Times. 16 February 2006. [related story] [Registration Required]
A young Bush appointee resigns his post at NASA. George C. Deutsch, the young presidential appointee at NASA who told public affairs workers to limit reporters' access to a top climate scientist resigned yesterday. New York Times. 8 February 2006. [Registration Required]
Lawmaker condemns NASA over scientist's accusations of censorship. The chair of the House Science Comm. sharply criticized NASA yesterday after the agency's top climate scientist complained of political pressure to prevent public discussions of global warming. New York Times. 31 January 2006. [related stories] [Registration Required]
Politics as Usual, and Then Some. Critics have complained that the Bush administration is pursuing its political and ideological goals even when they are in conflict with agency data, professional analysis and legal procedures. New York Times. 20 November 2005. [related story] [Registration Required]
A Drug Maker's Ads, Hold the Disclaimer. The troubled drug maker Merck is introducing this week what it describes as the first campaign in its 114-year history to help burnish the reputation of its corporate brand rather than sell its products. New York Times. 2 June 2005. [Registration Required]
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