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, 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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