Bush Victory Leaves Scars—and Concerns About Funding

摘要

U.S. presidential science adviser John Marburger has some sharp words for researchers who publicly opposed President George W. Bush's reelection: Wrong message. Wrong audience. Wrong candidate. Fresh from the election triumph by his boss and the Republican Party, Marburger warned last week in an interview with Science that criticism of the Administration's science policies during the campaign may be undermining public support for science. Offering a vigorous defense ot the Administration s record, Marburger blamed critics for "looking at how the sausage is made" rather than at the product itself, which he characterized as a record windfall for science. Such partisan attacks, he suggested, may make it harder to prevent science from losing ground in the next 4 years given the demands of the war in Iraq, national security, and economic recovery.