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WTF?!"This is not about stifling or suppressing our science, or politicizing our science in any way," Barbara Wainman, the agency's director of communications, said Wednesday. "I don't have approval authority. What it was designed to do is to improve our product flow

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[capnstamey]

drill a hole right through the Porcupine caribou.

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You suck. They should drill a hole right through your face.

[capnstamey]

they could do that, but then my face would be damaged, and I'd possibly die. and you wouldn't like it very much. I guarantee.

I'm much more interesting than a caribou.

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But caribou are cute.

[cutiebirdgal]

It's the government rejecting criticism. They've been doing it for a while. How is this new?

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> It's the government rejecting criticism.

Um... what? I'm not sure where you're getting that ...

In 2002, the USGS was forced to reverse course after warning that oil and gas drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would harm the Porcupine caribou herd. One week later a new report followed, this time saying the caribou would not be affected.

Their reasoning, it seems, is that the USGS told them something, they said OK and went with it, and then a week later the USGS said "oops our bad", making the government look stupid -- so they're setting guidelines hoping that won't happen again.

What surprised me was the government setting mandates on research (especially since politicians aren't scientists), but if that's the reason, I can see why ...

[cutiebirdgal]

Um, it's more like they print a report and the government says "We don't like what this says. Change it." and so it is changed. That's what I got from the article, anyway.