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Published online 28 January 2009 | Nature 457, 521 (2009) | doi:10.1038/457521a
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Science adviser should show his independence, says report
John Beddington under fire for defending government policy.
The UK government's chief scientific adviser has hit back at members of parliament who slammed him last week for what they see as his failure to adequately defend the use of science in policy-making.
In a report published on 20 January, the House of Commons committee for innovation, universities, science and skills criticized John Beddington, a population biologist who took up his post on 1 January 2008, for "defending government policy" when he should "champion evidence-based science within government".
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