January 30, 2009
Cautiously, Scientists Put Faith in Obama Promise
When Barack Obama named his top science and technology advisers only weeks after being elected, many scientists celebrated.
After eight years of an administration that many academics believed shortchanged research budgets and politicized science, researchers saw the swift appointments as evidence of a shift in the federal treatment of science.
"Under Obama it looks like science is going to gain a new level of prominence," said the journalist Chris Mooney, author of The
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