Count among those pissed off at President Obama's inability to follow through on his campaign promises the scientists who want the president to draft a policy on scientific integrity in the government.
It's not the first time the administration has had complaints from scientists. Those who work on food safety have reported to the Union of Concerned Scientists that, under the Obama administration, they've faced pressure to alter or delete findings from reports.
The survey offers little evidence that things have improved much under Obama. At the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Nutrition, they may even have got worse. In 2006, during Bush's second term, a similar UCS survey found that 10 per cent of its scientists they had been asked to inappropriately exclude or alter information in the previous year; the 2010 figure was 16 per cent.
It's getting harder to find a stance from which Obama's not willing to back away.
-- Monica Potts
