It's not science, it's politics

Junk science at its worst:

House Democrats stepped up their charges yesterday that the White House rigs the membership of scientific advisory panels to support its political decisions.

"The White House has essentially been vetting people for these committees on political and ideological grounds, rather than on whether they are qualified scientifically," said Rep. Brian Baird, D-Wash.

Baird and Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, released a report by the General Accounting Office recommending that scientists invited to serve on the committees be more thoroughly investigated to eliminate possible conflicts of interest, and that the process of selecting them be made more transparent.

Science need to guide politics - not be distorted to support bad politics.