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Published online 2 February 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060130-11
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Has NASA's press office gone too far?
One scientist's complaint of censorship has put the spotlight on NASA.
Is NASA engaging in censorship, or just running a tight ship? That's the question regarding allegations published in the New York Times last weekend that NASA tried to prevent one of its foremost climate researchers, James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, from speaking to the press.
Hansen made a speech on 6 December at an American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco calling for prompt action to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions — a message that runs against the grain of the Bush administration's current policies.
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