Kurt Gottfried: Science Meets Politics: Thomas Jefferson to George W. Bush

"There's been a mounting alarm stretching back now a couple of years about the way the administration interacts with science. The alarm is that the administration distorts the process by which it feeds scientific knowledge and information into its decision-making and secondly, that it distorts and misrepresents the science that surrounds its policies."

Kurt Gottfried, co-founder and chair of the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), is emeritus professor of physics at Cornell University. Dr. Gottfried has served on the senior staff of the European Center for Nuclear Research in Geneva and is a former chair of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations. He has served on the board of UCS since its inception, and led the UCS critique of the "Star Wars" program. He is the author of Quantum Mechanics and Concepts of Particle Physics, senior author of The Fallacy of Star Wars and Crisis Stability and Nuclear War, and a contributor to the 2004 UCS report Scientific Integrity in Policy Making: Investigation of the Bush Administration's Abuse of Science.

Established in 1969, the Union of Concerned Scientists was created to advocate a cleaner, healthier environment and a safer world. UCS is a nonprofit partnership of scientists and citizens combining rigorous scientific analysis, innovative policy development and effective citizen advocacy to achieve practical environmental solutions.

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