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A group of more than 60 top US scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates and several science advisors to past Republican presidents, accused the Bush administration of manipulating and censoring science for political purposes.

Among other items, the report claims the administration has:

Replaced a CDC fact sheet on proper condom use with a warning emphasizing condom failure rates.

Established political tests for scientific advisory boards. In one case, public health experts were removed from a CDC lead paint advisory panel and replaced with researchers who had financial ties to the lead industry.

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Ordered changes to a section on global warming from the EPA's 2003 Report on the Environment. The entire section was eventually dropped.

"I don't recall it ever being so blatant in the past," said Princeton University physicist Val Fitch, a Nobel laureate who served on a Nixon administration science advisory committee. "It's just time after time after time. The facts have been distorted."

More information on the report can be found at this website.

Editor's Note: from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution