SIGNS THAT THE GOVERNMENT'S ATTACK ON SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY IS ACCELERATING:

- Scientists who blew the whistle on government manipulation of scientific data are suddenly finding themselves signed up for the "2008 manned mission to Venus"

- Buoyed by its success closing EPA libraries and shredding their documents, the Bush administration announces plans to build the "Ronald Reagan Memorial Scientific-Data Black Hole"

- The administration uses a sudden resurgence in anti-communist fears to ignore the unanimous consensus of  physicists and remove red from the color spectrum


[image shows Dick Cheney driving a flat bed truck full of EPA documents to be destroyed; side of the truck says 'EPA Recycles -- Scientific Document Recycling Program]