The Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education appropriations bill, signed into law on Dec. 30, 2005, mandates that the federal government clean up its scientific act—at least for a year. The law prohibits the three agencies from knowingly disseminating bad data and bans application of any political litmus test to experts under consideration as outside advisers.
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