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The idea that the Bush administration has placed science
under attack is so commonplace now that it's almost cliché.
It's hard to think of a government agency staffed by
scientists that has not seen voluminous scandals over the
past several years involving either the suppression and
twisting of information or the intimidation of researchers.
The most explosive instances involve climate change and
reproductive health, but more obscure matters--like, say, how
to protect the threatened marbled murrelet--have scarcely
been immune.History tells the story
again and again. Horses buck.
A chariot runs wild, reins ripped
from the son's grasp. Missiles fall.
Below, seeds blow through armored bellies.
A rainbow floats south in the tarry ooze.
The mangled armies clash in the dust.
Villages collapse into sinkholes.
Families lie under debris.
The son says a prayer,
rampaging over charred roads.
By Jeff FriedmanYou could be forgiven for not having heard of
Brooksley Born, the elegantly named lawyer who chaired the
obscure Commodity Futures Trading Commission during the
Clinton administration. It was ten years ago this month that
Born had a memorable showdown in an ornate Treasury
Department conference room with two demigods of contemporary
American capitalism, Robert Rubin and Alan Greenspan.
