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04/02/2005:

"Yucca Scientists Investigated Over E-Mails"

WASHINGTON (AP) - E-mails by several government scientists on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump project suggest workers were planning to fabricate records and manipulate results to ensure outcomes that would help the project move forward.

``I don't have a clue when these programs were installed. So I've made up the dates and names,'' wrote a U.S. Geological Survey employee in one e-mail released Friday by a congressional committee investigating suspected document falsification on the project.

``This is as good as it's going to get. If they need more proof, I will be happy to make up more stuff.''

In another message the same employee wrote to a colleague: ``In the end I keep track of 2 sets of files, the ones that will keep QA happy and the ones that were actually used.'' QA apparently refers to ``quality assurance.''
Full Article: guardian.co.uk

This story is a parable for the state of most 'science' being conducted in the U.S.