This follows a typical line in Republican thinking – ignore the facts and they don’t exist:

The Bush administration is clamping down on scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey, the latest agency subjected to controls on research that might go against official policy.

New rules require screening of all facts and interpretations by agency scientists who study everything from caribou mating to global warming. The rules apply to all scientific papers and other public documents, even minor reports or prepared talks, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

Top officials at the Interior Department’s scientific arm say the rules only standardize what scientists must do to ensure the quality of their work and give a heads-up to the agency’s public relations staff.

“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.”

So I wonder what big oil lobbyist will get the job of censuring all data. This is apparently what they are trying to do. Things work so much easier when you can change the science and facts to your liking (see – Iraq/WMD). Perhaps we should turn to religion and fight against the anti-Christ that is sitting in the White House. His policies are meant to destroy God’s green planet.