As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.
I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers.
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.
If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community.
Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.
I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.