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But what makes Hansen unique is that he has been trying to disseminate his wealth of knowledge, to inform the people of sorry state of the global climate. It is correct that Hansen wasn’t specifically targeted insofar as the restrictions apply to everyone. I mean golly, we wouldn’t want the public to catch on to the truth now would we?

NYT - The top climate scientist at NASA says the Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking out since he gave a lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming.

The scientist, James E. Hansen, longtime director of the agency’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said in an interview that officials at NASA headquarters had ordered the public affairs staff to review his coming lectures, papers, postings on the Goddard Web site and requests for interviews from journalists.

Even if one agrees (and I don’t) that science should take a second seat to “democracy” and that “policy statements should be left to policy makers and appointed spokesmen,” the fact that only people who oppose official regime policy are cut down speaks for itself.