Science Government Style

Open inquiry, peer review, sharing of results, data driven and not agenda driven — these are some of the aspects of real science. When the government gets involved they tend to go out the window. Budgets demand crisis to fuel the flow of cash and heaven help you if the science you do doesn't get the right result. Here we have another case of failing to provide an open forum and muzzling results that don't apparently play to the party line.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has muzzled one of its own senior researchers according to a story by Chelsea Schilling posted yesterday on World Net Daily. SEE HERE
Alan Carlin, a senior operations research analyst with the National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE) had his research results rejected from an internal discussion forum based apparently on the fact that they flew in the face of policy decisions already made. At least this is what he was told according to the article above:

"Alan, I decided not to forward your comments," he wrote. "… The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward on endangerment, and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision.

What do you call this? It's certainly not science. It looks like political policy driven outcome based propaganda support, or in this case denying hearing to findings that would not promote the preferred policy. Dishonest? Yes! Surprising? No! We should get the government out of the agenda driven science business.