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Science 13 December 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5601, p. 2109
DOI: 10.1126/science.298.5601.2109e
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Concerns that the Bush Administration is blackballing ideologically incompatible science advice (Science, 15 November, p. 1323) now extend to the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) advisory councils. In a 21 November letter to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, Representative Edward Markey (D-MA) and three other lawmakers ask why one nominee to a National Institute on Drug Abuse panel was questioned about his voting preferences and his views on needle exchange, abortion, and drug legalization. The nominee, psychologist William Miller of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, says he was apparently rejected last January after giving incorrect answers. In this case and others, the lawmakers want to know "why ... this information is relevant" to providing scientific advice.

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