Some chapters of Vig and Kraft's book have made me reconsider the meaning of "sound science." What is interesting to me is that several efforts for manipulating scientific results on environmental policy-making have been widely taken by political parties, the White House, and public agencies, and we don't know exactly how many cases have been found until now.
Through a reference in Vig's chapter, I found Chris Mooney's book The Republican War on Science, dealing with the politicization of science under the Bush administration (but I haven't read this book yet). Moreover, I also found an interesting article published in 2009, "The Obama Administration's Challenges After the War on Science : Reforming Staffing Practices and Protecting Science Integrity in the Executive of Branch," written by Vaughn and Villalobos in the Review of Policy Research. Although this article is not related to environmental policy, it discusses the possibility of future stances of the Obama administration toward sound science.
I would like to deal with congressional efforts toward "sound science" on environmental policy as my final research project, so last week I looked for several bills dealing with congressional efforts for controlling intentional manipulation of scientific results by political parties, the White House, or public agencies. However, I could not find any related or similar bills in the 111th Congress. Only one bill, the "Restore Scientific Integrity to Federal Research and Policy Making Act," which was introduced by the 109th Congress, deals with congressional efforts to overcome the politicization of science.
Does anyone know or have some clue about these congressional efforts for overcoming the politicization of science?
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