We have had discussions on this listserve of what is meant by sound
science.

 From a Sierra Club email -

Even though EPA seems to be the only agency celebrating Environmental
Science Month, it is hardly the only agency where the Bush
administration messes with science. Just this week, Mike Kelly, a
fisheries biologist for the National Oceanic and Atmosphere
Administration, publicly resigned after repeatedly seeing the
administration manipulate and ignore his scientific research and that of
his colleagues. In his resignation letter
<http://info.sierraclub.org/c.html?rtr=on&s=arz,6p79,km2,9q74,8h5e,f9of,fjv9>,
he wrote: "I speak for many of my fellow biologists who are embarrassed
and disgusted by the agency's apparent misuse of science. However, it
appears that this agency, and others under the current administration,
routinely abuse the science by giving inappropriately high significance
to very small amounts of scientific uncertainty, if that uncertainty
supports a desired outcome."


Debbie says: The statement - " routinely abuse the science by giving
inappropriately high significance to very small amounts of scientific
uncertainty, if that uncertainty supports a desired outcome."   This is
another way of describing how the term "sound science" is used.


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