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Nature 428, 250-251 (18 March 2004) | doi:10.1038/428250a

US science policy:  Mission impossible?

Geoff Brumfiel1

  1. Geoff Brumfiel is Nature's Washington physical sciences correspondent.
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Mounting criticism of the way the Bush administration handles scientific advice has put John Marburger, the US president's science adviser, in the hot seat. Geoff Brumfiel takes the temperature.

When John Marburger took over as head of Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York State six years ago, the lab was facing a public-relations disaster — a leak from a storage pool for nuclear waste had angered environmentalists and turned many local people hostile. Using a combination of patience and openness, Marburger got the facility back on an even keel.

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