This week, the Wall Street Journal’s John Fund, wrote a column attacking the Obama Administration for supposedly trying to politicize the census at the expense of science.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123423384887066377.html
Fund wrote – President Obama said in his inaugural address that he planned to "restore science to its rightful place" in government. That's a worthy goal. But statisticians at the Commerce Department didn't think it would mean having the director of next year's Census report directly to the White House rather than to the Commerce secretary, as is customary. "There's only one reason to have that high level of White House involvement," a career professional at the Census Bureau tells me. "And it's called politics, not science."
Then Fund finds somebody to quote by name who agrees with him about the great danger to science posed by Obama –
"If the original numbers aren't as hard as possible, the uses they're put to get fuzzier and fuzzier," says Bruce Chapman, who was director of the Census in the 1980s.
Some folks might think that Chapman might not be the best expert to turn to on issues of science since Chapman is one of the country’s leading opponents of evolution –
http://www.geocities.com/lclane2/chapman.html
"The foremost thing is to demolish the Darwinist superstition. All our people can get along on that. What they don't agree on are the alternatives, such as the theory of design."
Bruce Chapman
President of Discovery Institute