Posted by Mark J. Pelavin, Associate Director

This week’s New Yorker has a fascinating, sobering, detailed examination of, as the author puts it, “the Bush Administration’s war on the laboratory.”  In his article, “Political Science,” reporter Michael Specter paints a comprehensive, and more than a little frightening, portrait of an Administration systematically devaluing science.  Although the article itself is not on line, there is an interesting "Q&A" with the author online. 

(In the same issue, Janet Malcolm’s take on Judicial confirmation hearings as “theatre,” is also well worth reading.)