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Scientist says Bush administration tried to stop him from speaking to journalists about global warming
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/articl...parentid=38096

Hansen may not be alone in his complaint.
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/0601...060130-11.html
Steven Beckwith, a Johns Hopkins University astronomer and former head of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, says NASA has been known to "forbid its staff from talking to the press"; this includes at least one agency scientist he knows of who spoke out on the politically sensitive subject of whether the Hubble Space Telescope's life should be extended.

Bush tried to gag environment expert
http://news.independent.co.uk/enviro...icle341945.ece

Editorial: We need to hear the bad news
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/...25373.200.html