Wes Clark's Blog Post on Yearly Kos

I wonder if Clarke's interest in the war on science has anything to do with recent goings on at the Pentagon. There's a new book out by a defense department reporter and it's called Imaginary Weapons : A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld:

The Pentagon's fascination with fringe science is old news, writes veteran defense reporter Weinberger in this incisive study, but the Bush administration has pushed it to new levels of wackiness.

Sharon Weinberger says, among other things, that peer review in the Pentagon has deteriorated, and that scientific opinions are dismissed on a regular basis.

NPR has an interview: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5478373 She says some really interesting things about 11 minutes in and also around 19 minutes.