Beware of backroom deals in the name of 'science': the term 'sound science' has become Orwellian double- speak for various forms of pro-business spin

Authors :: Macilwain, Colin
Source :: Nature. April 17, 2014, Vol. 508 Issue 7496, p289, 1 p.
Publication Year :: 2014
Abstract: Scientific and environmental groups enjoyed a small victory in Washington DC earlier this year, when an insidious little item called the sound-science bill was removed from farm legislation signed into [...]

Subjects :: Science and state -- Political aspects
Environmental issues
Science and technology
Zoology and wildlife conservation

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