Former Official Says Smithsonian Altered Global Warming Exhibit For Fear Of Angering Bush Admin

Former Official Says Smithsonian Altered Global Warming Exhibit For Fear Of Angering Bush Admin

Among other things, the script, or official text, of last year's exhibit was rewritten to minimize and inject more uncertainty into the relationship between global warming and humans, said Robert Sullivan, who was associate director in charge of exhibitions at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

Also, officials omitted scientists' interpretation of some research and let visitors draw their own conclusions from the data, he said. In addition, graphs were altered "to show that global warming could go either way," Sullivan said.

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