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Chemistry World April 25, 2008 Rebecca Trager	Environmental Scientists Report Political Interference Hundreds of the US Environmental Protection Agency's scientific staff have experienced political interference in their work, a survey has revealed.
Popular Mechanics February 20, 2010 Tyghe Trimble	Do Climate Scientists Need to Be More Transparent? Scientists at AAAS 2010 talk about the need for better transparency in science, particularly for climate research. Here is what they have to say.
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Geotimes February 2007 Carolyn Gramling	USGS Says no Hush Orders Given The U.S. Geological Survey is not muzzling scientists, agency officials say.
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Geotimes November 2003 Megan Sever	Government peer review The federal government recently proposed extensive new peer-review procedures for scientific reports from regulatory agencies. While some agencies already practice peer review with their documents, these, the first government-wide mandated standards, have some people crying foul.
Chemistry World September 6, 2012 Simon Perks	Rebuilding public trust in Japanese science The aftermath of the Japanese earthquake, the ensuing tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear accident has destroyed the country's trust in science and its role in policy-making.
Geotimes September 2007 Nicole Branan	Strange Bedfellows? Evangelicals and Scientists Join Forces on Climate Global warming is melting permafrost around the world, but earlier this year rising temperatures also led to the thawing of the notoriously frosty relations between scientists and evangelical Christians, triggering climate change of the political kind.
Chemistry World January 3, 2013 Steve Fuller	The public: clients of science? Despite the lip service paid to the virtues of secular democracy, the extent to which the public trusts blindly in research scientists rivals medieval deference to priestly authority.
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Chemistry World December 11, 2009 Andy Extance	'Climategate' resolution underlines concern over data falsification Politicians in the US are raising the pressure on chemists and other scientists to ensure their work's legitimacy following the publication of emails suggesting unethical research practices at the University of East Anglia.
Reason November 2005 Tim Cavanaugh	Subsidized Spin The Pentagon is spending $300,000 to send mid-career scientists, researchers, and engineers to a workshop at the television and screen writing school with the hope that some of these scientists will be inspired to produce a screenplay that paints scientists as cool.
Chemistry World July 10, 2015 Eugene Gerden	Funding changes worry Russian scientists Despite massive cuts to state spending this year, the government will keep funding national science at the same level as 2014. But changes in the way that the funding will be distributed has caused alarm.
Chemistry World September 5, 2013 Rebecca Trager	Funding woes lead US scientists to consider moving overseas A new report paints a bleak picture of scientists conducting government funded research in the US. As many as 18% of US scientists questioned for the analysis are considering taking their research to another country.
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Chemistry World March 2007 Ted Nield	Comment: Prepare to be Engaged The UK government offers another opportunity for scientists to go down another notch in public esteem by being seen to collaborate with the authorities.
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Geotimes September 2006 Lee Gerhard	Testing Global Warming Hypotheses Global climate change has been a natural phenomenon driven by natural processes for 4.5 billion years. Nevertheless, cultural pressures exist to identify a human cause for current global climate change.
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